While all other brothers became Kyogen (farce played during a Noh cycle) actors, he, who was seeking the path to be a Noh actor, was apprenticed to Motomasa KANZE, the 25th, in 1952, and underwent training under Hisao KANZE.
兄弟が狂言師となる中でひとり能役者に進むべく、1952年、二十五世観世元正に内弟子入門、観世寿夫に師事。