Mitsugorō died the following year, however, and so Tamasaburō returned to Edo soon afterwards. In 1839, he took on his father's poetry name (haimyō), Bandō Shūka, in a shūmei (naming ceremony) at the Ichimura-za.
Mitsugorō passed away the following year and Tamasaburō soon returned to Edo. In 1839, he adopted his father's poetic name (haimyō), Bandō Shūka, in a shūmei ceremony at the Ichimura-za.