Feeling sorry for him, his father found that the professional painter Kinryo KANEKO was a retainer of a relative of the Tahara Domain's lord family and asked Kaneko to take Kazan as his student based on that connection, whereupon Kaneko accepted it (Kazan was then 16 years old).
これを憐れんだ父は、藩主の姻戚の家来というつてを頼って金子金陵に崋山の弟子入りを頼み、受け入れられた（崋山16歳）。