He also showed a remarkable talent in this style so that Issai ISHII, the Ishii-ryu soke (the head family of the Ishii school) asked him to be his successor when Issai saw him.
この方面でもすぐに才能を示し、1892年に来松した石井流宗家石井一斎によって後継者に乞われるほどであったという。