Born to the Sakai family of Himeji Domain. He was introduced to the basics of painting in the Kano school, and studied the painting style of Utagawa Toyoharu in his 20s. From his 30s, he devoted himself to the Rimpa school, working on paintings of flowering plants with good use of tarashikomi. He left home at the age of 37. In 1815 , on the 100th anniversary of Ogata Korin’s death, he was involved in holding the Korin Igoku-ten (“traces of Korin exhibition”), and published One Hundred Paintings by Korin. At the age of 61, he produced his masterpiece, Flowering Plants of Summer and Autumn, on the back of Korin’s Wind God and Thunder God. In the land of Edo, he created a new course for the Rimpa school, with lyricism and elegant sensibility.