He also insisted that 'gakuga,' which could be handed down to the painters of later generations through classics, overweighed 'shitsuga,' which would end in a product of only one generation however great the painting was.
また、どんなに素晴らしい絵でも一代限りの成果で終わってしまう「質画」よりも、古典を通じて後の絵師たちに伝達可能な「学画」の方が勝るとしている。