When MINABUCHI no Shoan, who had studied in China (Sui and Tang dynasties) started a school, Kamatari learned Confucianism there, and he was regarded as being brilliant as well as SOGA no Iruka.
隋・唐に留学していた南淵請安が塾を開くとそこで儒教を学び、蘇我入鹿とともに秀才とされた。