He moved to 'Chienkan school' (the principal was a missionary named Guido Herman Fridolin VERBEEK), which was a Saga Domain school to learn Western studies in English, remodelled the residence of the feudal retainer of the Isahaya clan Yamamoto family in Goto Town, Nagasaki, and served along with Taneomi SOEJIMA with the same rank of vice-principal.
そして慶応元年（1865年）、佐賀藩が長崎の五島町にあった諌早藩士山本家屋敷を改造した佐賀藩校英学塾「致遠館」（校長：宣教師グイド・フルベッキ）にて、副島種臣と共に教頭格となって指導に当たった。