Subsequently, he produced a series of woodblock prints including "Dainippon meisho kagami" "Dainihonshi ryaku zue""Shinryu nijuyoji" "Fuzoku sanjuniso" "Tsuki hyakushi" and "Shinsen azuma nishiki-e", for which he made designs growing out of ukiyoe; he might have had a sense of crisis as an ukiyoe artist in that and started being also active as a proper artist.
その後、『大日本名将鑑』『大日本史略図会』『新柳二十四時』『風俗三十二相』『月百姿』『新撰東錦絵』などを出し、浮世絵色の脱した作品を作るが、それに危機を覚えてか、本画家としても活躍しだす。