While in the Hyogo Prefectural Daini-Kobe Junior High School (present Hyogo Prefectural Hyogo High School), he came to aim to be a painter, and went on to the Department of Japanese-style painting of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (present Tokyo University of Arts).
兵庫県立第二神戸中学校（現兵庫県立兵庫高等学校）在学中から画家を志し、東京美術学校（現東京芸術大学）日本画科へ進学。