Although not very much about the details of his youth are known, he became a priest at Oyama-dera Temple (Isehara City), a branch temple that belonged to Kogi Shingon (Old Shingon) sect in Sagami Province (Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture), in his twenty-second year in 1739.
その後、青年期のことはあまり詳しくわかっていないが、1739年（元文4年）、22歳の時に相模国（神奈川県伊勢原市）の古義真言宗に属する大山寺(伊勢原市)で出家している。