Since getting married at the age of 25, Kanetane had been feeling the heavy responsibility to inherit the study and enormous debts that his father-in-law had accumulated.
25歳で婿入りした鐵胤は、新婚当初から父の跡目を継ぐ重責と、また平田家の莫大な借財の重さをひしひしと体感していた。