At the age of 18, he entered a private school called Yoshido run by Shuhaku AZAI to study traditional Chinese medicine, while he also studied Confucianism under Ansai YAMAZAKI and Jinsai ITO at the same time.
18歳の時、浅井周伯の私塾・養志堂に入り東洋医学を学びながら、儒学を山崎闇斎、伊藤仁斎に学んだ。