A traditional painter in the Japanese style (nihonga) who specialized in kacho-ga (bird and flower drawings), Ide designed prints for the Watanabe Publishing Company beginning in the spring of 1949 and continued his association with Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962) until the mid-1950s. Watanabe's 1963 catalog lists fifteen prints Ide designed, all of them of the bird and flower genre.