He studied Neo-Confucianism under Tozan KAWAKAMI who was a Confucian in Hamamatsu, Japanese classical literature under Yoshiomi NAKAMURA in Itami, Morohira KANO of the Kishu Domain, and Nobutomo BAN in Edo, and waka under Hideo IIDA who was a Shinto priest in Inaba Province, and other scholars.
朱子学については、浜松の儒者川上東山、国学については、伊丹の中村良臣・紀州藩の加納諸平・江戸の伴信友、和歌については因幡国神官飯田秀雄　等について学んでいる。