When he was 11 years old in 896, he had kosho hajime (the ceremony of taking his first lecture) at the daigakuryo, and then he had a ceremony of Genpuku (Coming of Age Ceremony for a young man after the Nara Period) in November, 898.
寛平8年（896年）11歳の時に大学寮において講書初めが行われ、昌泰元年（898年）11月に元服した。