A drinker and pleasure-seeker, he spent money as soon as he earned, as if saying "money is not something you keep overnight"; in his later years he seems to have had only one kimono to wear, thus he had to ask publishers to lend him a kimono for doing "nakami" to sketch Kabuki actors appeared on stage.
酒と遊びが大好きで、画料が入っても宵越しの金は持たないとばかりにすぐ使ってしまい、晩年は着物一枚で過ごし舞台に出る役者をスケッチする「中見」の際には版元から着物を貸してもらうほどだったという。