When he was 24 years old, he completed the study of teaching of Jodo Sect under the guidance of Shoku, a priest of the Seizan school of the Jodo Sect, but he was not persuaded and when he was 26 years old, he started to study Zen under the guidance of Kakuan, a priest of the Nihon Daruma Sect who resided at Tonomine in Yamato Province.
24歳で浄土宗西山派の証空について浄土教学を修めるが得心せず、さらに26歳の時、大和国多武峯（とうのみね）に日本達磨宗の覚晏を訪ね禅を学ぶ。