According to a record on posterity, 'Sonyumonjo' in 1688, he got married to the granddaughter of Sokei TANAKA, and later set up a studio for creating ceramics with Sokei, his eldest son, Tanaka Syozaemon Somi, and his second son, Kichizaemon Rakujokei who became the second head of Raku Kichizaemon family later.
後世の記録「宗入文書」（元禄元年（1688年））の伝えるところによると、妻に田中宗慶の孫娘を迎え、後に宗慶とその長男・田中庄左衛門宗味、次男・吉左衛門楽常慶（後に樂吉左衛門家二代当主）らとともに工房を構えて作陶を行なった。