At a young age he entered Shoju-ji Temple for training; the temple was an ancestral temple of the Satake clan and held many cultural properties such as paintings, which greatly influenced Sesson's paintings.
幼くして正宗寺に入って修行、同寺は佐竹氏の菩提寺であり、絵画をはじめとした多くの文化財があり、雪村の絵に大きな影響を与えた。