He worked as an apprentice at Tenmonkata under his father and was good at English and Mathematics; and his father, following the suggestion of Akiyoshi's grandaunt Fukiko OKUTOME (a biological daughter of his great-grandfather, Yoshitsugu YAMAJI), ordered him to marry Fukiko's daughter Keiko (real mother of Aizan).
父の元で天文方見習を務めており英語や数学に優れていたが、大叔母である奥留ふき子（曽祖父山路徳風の実娘）の意向を受けた父の命によってふき子の娘・けい子（愛山の生母）を娶わせられた。