He received a commission to design a large Japanese-lacquered zelkova shelf called “kingin-sai kazari tsubo” for the Ume-no-Ma audience room of Tokyo Imperial Palace.
Kazue was at one time a member of the feminist literary group Seito (publishers of the magazine of the same name, Bluestocking).
A controversial figure in her youth, Kazue had a close relationship (and, it was thought, an infatuation) with Raicho Hiratsuka.
It is thought that Tomimoto may have drawn an early draft of the woodblock print which Otake finished and submitted to Seito, which appeared as the cover of the 1913 New Year's issue of Seito magazine.
The Tomimoto Kenkichi Memorial Museum was opened in 1974 in Ando, Nara.