As for paintings he learned the method of Kano school under his uncle, Norihiro YANO, but since he saw 'The Spine-Chiller sausui-zu (a painting of the landscape)' by Senkoku during Ming Dynasty, he was very much into literati painting.
画は叔父矢野典博に狩野派の画法を学んだが、明の銭穀の「真景山水図」を観て以来、文人画に傾倒する。