Taikan was strongly affected by Sutehiko, his father and an ardent loyalist, and his teacher, Tenshin OKAKURA, who was well known as a thinker and was characterized as an ultranationalist.
大観は、熱烈な勤王派であった父・捨彦、思想家としても著名であり国粋主義者とも称された師・岡倉天心の影響を色濃く受けた。