He studied a type of Confucianism called kobunjigaku, (study of ancient rhetoric school), and he trained in Zen Buddhism under Meika UNO and Daicho Genko up to the end of his twenties while training for Zen under Dokusho Jishu.
独峰慈秀の下で禅の修行に勤しみながらも、20代後半まで宇野明霞や大潮元皓に儒学の一派である古文辞学を学んでいる。