After his wife's death, from 1781 for a while, he stayed in Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, counting on his patron who was a merchant, probably in order to heal his grief.
妻を失った後、傷心を癒す為か、パトロンであった商人を頼り、天明元年（1781年）から暫く、大阪府池田市に滞在。