The first generation Senkaku HORINOUCHI had been adopted into the Horinouchi family by Josa, and after having first studied haikai (seventeen-syllable verse) under SENTOKU Mizuma, he left Edo to enter into study under the sixth grandmaster of the Omotesenke, Kakukakusai.
初代、堀内仙鶴は浄佐の養子で、はじめ水間沾徳の門で俳諧を学び、のちに江戸を去り表千家6代覚々斎の門下に入った。