He studied at Ryusho KITAMURA's private school Gakuhando and with teachings of Tadanao YOKOI and Kakuma YAMAMOTO, and is believed to have achieved excellent results in a wide range of areas including Keiseiron (a political and economic theory talking about countermeasures for actual social issues and problems in the Edo Period) and the Confucianism of Edo Period.
北村龍象の私塾学半堂や横井忠直、山本覚馬らにも師事し、儒教江戸時代、経世論など幅広い分野を成績優秀で修めたとされる。