He studied under his father Kansai as well as from Jussai HAYASHI and Ritsuzan SHIBANO, and in terms of Japanese calligraphy he traveled to Nagasaki to learn penmanship studying under a Qing master named HU Zhaoxin (Choshin KO in Japanese, written as "胡兆新").
父寛斎や林述斎・柴野栗山に師事し、書は長崎に遊学し清国の胡兆新に学ぶ。