Said to have been modelled after an English actress, the work is widely considered his masterpiece and has been designated as a Prefectural Cultural Property of Shimane.

[7] In 1919 he was involved in discussions for Matsukata Kōjirō's unrealised Kyoraku Bijutsukan ("Sheer Pleasure Arts Pavilion") alongside Kuroda Seiki, whose diary records their meeting with Ōe Shintarō (大江新太郎), Bernard Leach, and Frank Brangwyn.

[9] Ishibashi Kazunori's works include a series of thirty-seven panels of the four seasons for the medical students' dining hall at the London Hospital (no longer extant);[4] portraits of the statesmen Count Ōkuma (1915), Viscount Gotō Shinpei (1924), and Admiral Tōgō (1927), as well as of Sir Adrian Boult (1923), now at the Royal College of Music, along with Carp (1914), Sea-bream, and Japanese Winter Landscape, all shown at the Summer Exhibition.

Ishibashi displayed A Favourite Book and A Peaceful Evening for the 1915 War Relief Exhibition;[6] and, at the Bunten exhibitions, Memories of Things, awarded third prize at the second in 1908, Lady Reading Poetry (1906), awarded third prize at the third in 1909, Doctor Uehara at the fifth in 1911, and Sculptor (1911), now at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, at the sixth the following year.

[14] In contrast to many of his contemporaries, his works show a "determination to keep distinct ... the two spheres of Western portraiture and Japanese decorative art".