Later he quit the priesthood and went to Osaka and studied waka (Japanese poetry) under Keichu (a scholar of Japanese classics), haikai (seventeen-syllable verse) under Teishitsu YASUHARA, and kyoka under his older brother.
その後還俗して大阪に出て、和歌を契沖に、俳諧を安原貞室に、狂歌を兄に学んだ。