On the other hand, when he was five years old, his father gave him books and when he was seven years old, he visited his cousin Atsutada ODAKA (businessman) to learn Shishogokyo (the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, the Nine Chinese Classics) and "Nihon Gaishi (historical book on Japan)."
一方で5歳の頃より父から読書を授けられ、7歳の時には従兄の尾高惇忠(実業家)の許に通い、四書五経や『日本外史』を学ぶ。