Influenced by his adoptive father, who was known as a book collector, he studied hard and was highly praised as 'a talent of the period' by Iehiro KONOE, who would later be a political enemy.
蔵書家として知られた養父の影響で学問に励み、後に政敵となる近衛家熙からも「当世の才」として高く評価された。