After graduating from private Shohei Junior High School, he entered the Kunaicho gakubu (Music Department of the Imperial Household Agency) in 1941 to study gagaku, and became a master musician of the Kunaicho gakubu in 1949.
私立昌平中学校卒、1941年宮内省楽部楽生入学、1949年宮内庁楽部楽師。