Kanda Nissho painted a large number of landscapes of the Tokachi District in a small format. Most were simple, pastoral scenes that he sold or gave as gifts. View of Ohgigahara was painted on commission, as were others, evidence that he had become an artist whose works were of value because of his name. In many of the landscapes, he did not paint a specific place, but combined distinctive motifs, such as a stand of poplars, haystacks, a silo, or a group of horses—typical landscape scenes one would find in Tokachi. He also created unforgettable scenes, as with An Abandoned Farm, depicting land that settlers had finally abandoned after suffering repeated damage from cold weather and crop failures. A constant thread running through these landscapes is the harshness of nature and the isolation felt by those who tried to settle the land.