When Kinga's father began to work in Edo, Kinga started learning Kogigaku (study of pursuing ancient meanings of Confucius and Mencius based on their original texts, by Jinsai ITO's Ancient Meaning school) under Yuho KAWAGUCHI who was Jinsai ITO's disciple and whom Kinga had been on friendly terms for a long time.
父が江戸詰となってから、かねてから親交のあった伊藤仁斎門下の川口熊峯（かわぐちゆうほう）に師事し古義学を学ぶ。