At the time, his father's family, the Miyanaga family in Shimokawasaki-mura, was upon bad times, so he and his mother were taken in and cared for by her relative Kihei ISHISAKI, the Kimoiri-yaku (the headman of a village) in Fukumitsu-mura village, and he was raised there.
当時、父の実家である下川崎村の宮永家は家運が衰退していたため､やむなく母八重子の生家である福光村肝煎役石崎喜兵衛方に母子ともに引き取られ、そこで養育された。