Studying Confucianism, KUWAYAMA sought instruction from Hansai HOSOAI (a poet who wrote in the Chinese style) and at age 31 painted a portrait of HANSAI which was however, KUWAYAMA's only known rendition of a portrait.
学問は儒学者であり漢詩人の細合半斎を師と仰ぎ、31歳のとき半斎像を画いたが、これが玉洲の唯一の肖像画である。