He had been an excellent priest who pursued his studies from a young age, and became a professor of the Soto-shu University (the antecedent of the present Komazawa University), where he had graduated, at the age of 29.
若いころから学僧として優秀で、29歳の若さで母校の曹洞宗大学（現在の駒澤大学の前身）の教授となった。