At 30, he made a trip to Edo, was received in audience with Iemochi TOKUGAWA, the fourteenth Shogun, and dedicated clerical script written with a steel pen and was granted an autograph letter as an Imperial gift.
30歳で江戸に遊歴し、14代将軍徳川家茂に謁見し鉄筆の隷書を献じて親書を下賜されている。