During this period, while he was engaged in the compilation of "Bungo Kokushi" (Bungo provincial history), he learned painting under a local painter, and even sought a distance instruction of Buncho TANI in Edo (present Tokyo), which can be compared to today's correspondence education.
この間『豊後国志』の編纂に携わり、また、地元の画家に画を学び、江戸の谷文晁に現在でいう通信教育まで受けている。