During his samurai training, he became a live-in apprentice of Isami KONDO of the Tennenrishin school who had a training hall, Shieikan in Ichigaya in Edo and had disciples in the Tama area in Bushu (Musashi Province).
武者修行中に、江戸市谷に道場試衛館を構え、武州多摩地方で門人を持っていた天然理心流の近藤勇に食客として入門する。