He graduated from Furitsu Icchu (abbreviation for Tokyo Prefectural No. 1 Junior High School), and during his school days in Nihon Gakuen Junior High School and Senior High School he became interested in the pictorial arts and learned pencil drawing from Bunzaburo WATANABE, a Western-style painter.
府立一中卒業後、私立の日本学園中学校・高等学校在学中に絵画に興味を抱き、洋画家・渡辺文三郎に鉛筆画を学ぶ。