Partly because he might have had an attachment to the moon due to the letter in his name, he drew the moon in most of his paintings including "Tsuki hyakushi," a series of one hundred paintings of moon.
月に対しては名前のせいもあって思い入れがあるようで、月の出てくる作品が多く、『月百姿』という百枚にもおよぶ連作も手がけている。