Unshitsu went to Edo to study Ekiroso (I Ching, Laozi and Zhuangzi) and Confucianism, and in 1781, he was nominated for an academic position at Yushima Seido Temple (Confucian temple).
江戸に出て易老荘、儒学を学び、天明元年（1781年）湯島聖堂の学職に挙げられた。