He entered Reitakusha School run by a Confucian scholar, Sekkyo SUZUKI (who was 29), in Kanuma, who had learned at Shoheiko School (a school run by the Tokugawa shogunate) (when he was 15).
昌平黌で学んだ鹿沼の儒学者鈴木石橋(29歳）の麗澤舎に入塾（15歳）。