He also studied the shipbuilding of Western-style schooner sailing ships with Denzo TAKASAKI, who was a retainer of HONDA Ecchu no Kami (Governor of Ecchu Province), the Coastal Defense Department of the shogunate.
江戸幕府海防掛本多越中守の家来高崎伝蔵からスクネール式洋式帆船造船術を学ぶ