After the Tempo Reforms by which entertainment as a whole was strictly regulated, he stopped his painting activities leaving them to many of his disciples and devoted himself for literary pursuits including Gokan (bound-together volumes of illustrated books) and Kokkeibon (literally "comical book") under the appellation of Ippitsuan Kako.
娯楽全般に厳しく統制される天保の改革の時勢を迎えたのちは、画業はもっぱら多くの門人に任せて自らは描く事をやめ、一筆庵可候の号をもって合巻や滑稽本を主とする文筆業に専念した。