He also learned English from Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeek, who visited Japan at that time, with Shigenobu OKUMA and Taneomi SOEJIMA, who came from the same domain as his.
また、同藩の大隈重信・副島種臣らと共に、当時ちょうど来日していたグイド・フルベッキに英語を学んでいる。