During this practice period, he met a young kabuki actor Enji JITSUKAWA and they performed together as a duo; one played shamisen and the other danced on the street and they were paid by pedestrians to make up money for traveling.
この修業時代に實川延次という若手と知り合い、二人はコンビを組んで片方が三味線を引きもう片方が踊りを担当し、通行人から金をもらって路銀の足しにした。