He had already painted 'Yukyo dokusho zu' (a picture of one reading a book while living in seclusion) as a painter when he was 24 years old, but he started painting intensively from the age of 31 when he moved to Kyoto.
24歳のときの既に画人として作品「幽居読書図」を画いているが、本格的にはじめたのは京都に出た31歳以降である。