At the age of 24, Kinga abandoned his family profession of doctor of the Kasama Domain so as to become a Confucianist, and he first temporarily lived in Komagome where he gathered auditors and lectured in front of them.
24歳の時、金峨は家業の藩医を捨てて儒学者を志し、当初駒込に仮住まいし聴講者を集めて講義をした。