Also, he is usually compared with Issa KOBAYASHI, who was a haiku poet in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate (when Issa died at the age of sixty-five, he was five).
また、井月は同じ幕末期の俳人である小林一茶ともよく比較される（一茶が65歳で没したとき、井月は5歳）。