It seems that he was skilled with the koto since childhood, and had already added a koto arrangement to 'Yashima,' a jiuta song, at the age of eleven, after which he added arrangements to numerous existing jiuta songs, different in atmosphere to the Kyoto arrangements by composers such as Kengyo YAEZAKI.
幼少の頃から箏にも長けていたらしく、既に11歳で地歌「屋島」に箏の手を付けているのをはじめ、既存の地歌曲にもいくつか箏の手付けをしているが、これらもやはり八重崎検校など京都の手付けとは雰囲気が異なっている。