There are no reliable records of his childhood, but it is said that he learned Ommyodo and was initiated into the ancient astrology from the Ommyoji father-and-son pair, KAMO no Tadayuki and KAMO no Yasunori.
幼少の頃については確かな記録がないが、陰陽師賀茂忠行・賀茂保憲父子に陰陽道を学び、天文道を伝授されたということになっている。