Although his boyhood is not known well, he went to Kyoto from his late teens and became a disciple of Yutei ISHIDA, a painter of the Tsurusawa school belonging to Tanyu KANO.
少年時代のことはあまり詳しくわかっていないが、遅くとも十代の後半には京へ出て、狩野探幽の流れを引く鶴沢派の画家、石田幽汀の門に入っている。