In the above-mentioned place, he learned academics from Tetsuma MAZAKI, who was a kori yakunin (official for county), and, by going out to the castle town, swordplay from Hanpeita TAKECHI and devoted himself to antiforeign imperialism.
同地で郡役人の間崎哲馬に学問を、また城下に出て武市半平太に剣術を学び尊攘思想に傾倒するようになった。