Takamaro stayed with this father and learned Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan) from his father and read Shijing (Book of Odes) and Shujing (Book of History) as well as Kokugo (Book of History from ancient China), Shogaku (Chinese textbook for beginner published in 1187) and Joganseiyo (a book written about Taiso, the second Emperor of Tang Dynasty in China).
隆麿は父の膝下にあって、父より日本書紀を学び、詩経、書経をよみ、国語、小学、貞観政要をよむ。