As an attendant Confucian scholar at the imperial court in the late Edo period, he taught Confucianism to a number of the youth in the imperial family and the nobility, who were active from the Bakumatsu period (the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate) through to the Meiji period.
江戸時代後期の朝廷儒学者として幕末期から明治時代に活躍した多くの皇族や公家の子女たちに儒学を教えた。