He loved the arts and learned dance, shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese banjo), joined an itinerant actors troupe leaving his home and called himself Kamezo ARASHI and while he was acting on stage from Ise Province to Nagoya, he was discovered by theater officials who happened to see his play and in Osaka.
芸事が好きで踊りや三味線を習い、家を出て旅役者の一座に入り、嵐亀蔵と名乗り伊勢から名古屋で舞台に立つうち、来合わせた大坂の芝居関係者に見いだされて大坂に行く。