Sensai studied medicine under Souha HATA, and studied a school of Confucianism called Renraku; then, he served Kiyomasa KATO, the lord of Kumamoto domain in Higo Province as a Confucian Physician.
秦宗巴に従って医を学び、濂洛の学を修め、儒医をもって肥後国熊本藩主の加藤清正に仕えた。