He was called Sengaku Shoho (the reading of Baigaku Shoho was inaccurate), and in order to study at Kyoto Gozan (the five selected temples in Kyoto), he went up to Kyoto accompanied by the Zen priest Sessai TAIGEN, a chief retainer of the Imagawa family and assigned to serve Yoshimoto as a tutor.
栴岳承芳（せんがくしょうほう（梅岳承芳（ばいがくしょうほう）は誤伝））と称し教育係につけられた今川家重臣出身の禅僧・太原雪斎とともに京都に上って五山に学んだ。