Hiroshige's apprentice work included book illustrations and single-sheet ukiyo-e prints of female beauties and kabuki actors in the Utagawa style, sometimes signing them Ichiyūsai[6] or, from 1832, Ichiryūsai.[7] In 1823, he resigned his post as fire warden, though he still acted as an alternate.[a] He declined an offer to succeed Toyohiro upon the master's death in 1828