After he entered Jufuku-ji Temple (the Kencho-ji Temple school of the Rinzai Sect) in Kamakura during early life, he learned Esoteric Buddhism at the Daigo-ji Temple and studied under Tomyo Enichi of the Soto sect.
年少期に鎌倉寿福寺（臨済宗建長寺派）に入った後、醍醐寺に入って密教を学び、また曹洞宗の東明慧日に師事した。