While working as a broker, he studied sewing pouches and started to produce shifuku for tea containers with the support of the sixth grand master of Omote Senke, Kakukakusai.
その傍ら袋物の仕立ての修行をし、表千家六代・覚々斎に引き立てられて茶入の仕覆などを縫うようになった。