Osanobu would borrow originals or copies from the storehouse of the Shogunate families, of course, as well as from the Shirakawa Bunko library of Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA, and those of the SUMISYOSHI family and others, make copies, and if there was a Dekaicho (exhibiting a Buddhist image) at a temple in Kyoto he would set out for Kyoto to draw it.
将軍家の倉からはもちろん、松平定信の白河文庫、住吉家をはじめ諸家から原本や模本を借りては写し、京都の寺の出開帳があれば写しに出向いた。