For the next three years from this time, Shiki continued to compose haiku, tanka and essays from his sickbed, overcoming severe pain with the use of anesthetics that made him unable to turn from his side, and he also continued to advise his followers Kyoshi TAKAHAMA, Hekigodo KAWAHIGASHI, Sachio ITO, Takashi NAGATSUKA and others.
この頃から子規は約3年間ほぼ寝たきりで、寝返りも打てないほどの苦痛を麻痺剤で和らげながら、俳句・短歌・随筆を書き続け（一部は口述）、また病床を訪れた高浜虚子、河東碧梧桐、伊藤左千夫、長塚節ら後進の指導をし続けた。