He met, however, with Hosui YAMAMOTO and Masazo FUJI, painters, and Tadamasa HAYASHI, an art dealer in Paris, which caused him to make up his mind to become a painter in 1886 and he studied under Raphael Collin.
しかし、パリで画家の山本芳翠や藤雅三、美術商の林忠正に出会い、1886年に画家に転向することを決意し、ラファエル・コランに師事する。