Given no chance to participate in the Sonno Joi movement, he took on a role of guarding the residential area for foreigners in Yokohama City around 1863 and then became acquainted with Kashitaro ITO and Tainoshin SHINOHARA.
尊王攘夷の機会を得ず、文久3年（1863年）頃、横浜の外人居留地警備の役目を担った時、伊東や篠原泰之進らと出会う。