In April, he became Niwakata-yaku gardener, and he studied under Saiakira, who was the greatest Daimyo of Kaimei Group living, and also he met the great scholar Toko, who was the person that he most wished to meet, and took a lecture about national affairs from him.
4月、庭方役となり、当代一の開明派大名であった斉彬から直接教えを受けるようになり、またぜひ会いたいと思っていた碩学藤田東湖にも会い、国事について教えを受けた。