The arrangement didn't last long and after a while, he went to Kyoto and became a live-in worker in the dried food shop of Funaya Shobee in Higashinotoin Manjuji.
しかし続かず、しばらくして京都に赴き、東洞院万壽寺の鮒屋庄兵衛の乾物問屋に住み込みとなった。