Each exercise is designed to be completed in about a dozen practical and tactical moves, and his shogi therefore was quite different from the shogi style using fancy moves that became popular in the middle of the Edo period.
手数は十数手詰めで、実戦的な手筋を多く用いており、江戸中期に盛んになった華麗な手筋を用いるものとは趣が異なる。