In addition, during around this period, even though he had mastered Shinto (belief in god of heaven and earth), Confucianism and Buddhism and he was enjoying the fame of the best scholar of the domain, he frequently visited Ittei ISHIDA, who was living in retirement in Matsuume-mura Village in Shimoda (present Yamato-cho, Saga Prefecture) in order to ask for Ittei's tutelage.
さらにこの前後、神道・儒学・仏道の学をきわめ藩随一の学者といわれながら下田（現在の佐賀県大和町）松梅村に閑居する石田一鼎を度々訪れて薫陶を受けた。