Besides practicing medicine, he enjoyed Chinese poetry, calligraphy, growing green tea, tea ceremony and so on, and was acquainted with many literary men including Mokubei AOKI, Chikuden TANOMURA, Shunkin URAGAMI, Baiitsu YAMAMOTO, Kaisen ODA, Sanyo RAI, Shochiku SHINOZAKI, Rinkoku HOSOKAWA and Beian ICHIKAWA.
医業の傍ら漢詩・書・煎茶・茶の湯などに親しみ、青木木米・田能村竹田・浦上春琴・山本梅逸・小田海僊・頼山陽・篠崎小竹・細川林谷・市河米庵を始め、多くの文人と交友した。