Since being from such noble family which ancestor had established great achievement in many battles and their names as samurai had spread among Kanto region, it is not surprising that his father was worried about national affairs; in 1865 he went to Kiyo (Nagasaki)and studied medicine at the 'Yojosho' which later became Nagasaki Medical School.
百戰千鬪の功を樹て､武名を関東に揚げたる名門の裔なるを以て､君及嚴父の國事を憂ふるもの､蓋偶然に非ざるを知るべし､君は慶應元年､崎陽に遊學して醫術を長崎醫学校の前身たる『養生所』に研究する。