In the following year, 1848, he went to the north branch of Seitoku Shoin (the present Chiba Prefectural Sakura Senior High School), which was a hanko (domain school) located in Kashiwakura Village where was then part of the Sakura domain, adjacent to there, and managed jinya (regional government office)).
翌嘉永元年、その隣村で陣屋のあった佐倉藩領の柏倉（山形市）の藩校千葉県立佐倉高等学校北庠に通った。