He excelled academically from an early age and learned Japanese classical literature and Kagaku (Uta Poem Study) from Ohira MOTOORI, and herbalism from Todo OHARA who was a scholar of herbalism in the Domain and a high-caliber disciple of Ranzan ONO.
若いときから学問に長じ、本居大平に国学と歌学、藩の本草家で小野蘭山の高弟であった小原桃洞に本草学を学んだ。