Although he had spent a time in his youth watching others at work and studied books that had started to be published, Maekawa admitted that for him, learning the process of printmaking was one of trial and error.

In the same book, Robert Paine, Jr. of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts said that he had "best preserved a Japanese nature, a broad humaneness of subject matter.

[6] Helen Merritt remarks that while the subjects are depicted enjoying one their favorite pastimes of spa-going, due to Maekawa's somber colors, "the feeling is not joyous.

"[7] Oliver Statler stated that the series contains "some of his pleasantest prints", and lauded Maekawa's "connoisseur's selection from the country's hundreds of hot spring resorts.

[7][6] More Woodblock Prints, Hot Spring Notes (続版画 浴泉譜 Zoku hanga yokusen fu), was self-published in 1944 probably due to wartime shortages.