However, while working in despair at Yokouchi Kankosho, a vocational aid center for former retainers of the shogun, he educated his son Aizan through teaching practice of calligraphy and English, but simultaneously Ichiro began to give himself over to drinking.
だが、失意のうちに旧幕臣の授産施設である横内勧工所に務めながら息子の愛山に手習いや英語を教えてその教育に務めつつも酒に浸るようになっていった。