It is written in "Genryu Sawa" (Essays about the Tea Ceremony), published by Chikushin YABUNOUCHI during the mid-Edo period, that 'Hechikan preferred the wabi (taste for the simple and quiet) style tea ceremony, held aloof from popular tea ceremony styles, and never owned expensive tea cups, but was always contented with his life' and that 'although Hechikan was eccentric, he knew the essence of wabi, and other celebrated tea ceremony masters enjoyed having tea with him,' indicating that he was trying to develop a unique style of his own without using expensive tea cups that were popular at the time.
江戸時代中期に成立した藪内竹心の『源流茶話』によれば「丿貫は、侘びすきにて、しいて茶法にもかかはらず、器軸をも持たず、一向自適を趣とす」「異風なれ共、いさぎよき侘数奇なれば、時の茶人、交りをゆるし侍りしと也」と書かれており、当時盛行していた高額な茶器などは用いず、独自の茶道を追求していたようである。