While visiting Kyushu to study, he practiced paintings at Kangien of Tanso HIROSE in Oita, and received instructions on shoho (calligraphy) of Shikunshi (four plants with high virtue) and so on from Chen Yizhou (Chin Isshu), a Chinese painter of Qing Dynasty, in Nagasaki.
その後、九州に遊学し、大分では広瀬淡窓の咸宜園で修行、長崎では清国の画家陳逸舟に四君子などの書法を伝授される。