While he wrote Enpon every year and gave popular books to the public under various secret pen names, he wrote the famous masterpiece (a fine piece of work), "Haru no Usuyuki" in 1822.
艶本は毎年のように作られ、さまざまな隠号をもって人気本を世に送り出すなか、傑作と名高い『春野薄雪』も文政5年（1822年）に著された。