In this year, he received mokujiki-kai under his mentor priest Mokujiki Kankai at Rakan-ji Temple of Shingon sect in Hitachi Province (Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture).
この年、彼は常陸国（茨城県水戸市）の真言宗羅漢寺で、師の木食観海から木食戒（もくじきかい）を受けた。