After he grew up, he deepened exchanges with the top literati painters in those days, such as Shungaku KANAE and Kyodo HAMADA in Osaka and Shunkin URAGAMI, Chikuto NAKABAYASHI, Baiitsu YAMAMOTO in Kyoto and meanwhile he seems to have acquired the method of literati painting.
長じた後に大坂では鼎春岳、濱田杏堂、京都では浦上春琴、中林竹洞、山本梅逸ら、当時一流の文人画家と親しく交流するうち文人画の技法を修得したものと推察される。