Influenced by the popularity of photography in his time, there were commercial photographic portraits publisher of Kabuki actors known as "shashinjo" photo studio in 1870, upon which he produced woodblock prints using the shadow method, only to be proven unsuccessful.
写真の流行する時代の影響を受け、明治3年（1870）に「写真所」と題した役者のブロマイドがあり、陰影法を用いた木版画を制作したが成功しなかった。