He studied in Kyoto under Takamasa OKUNI, a scholar of Japanese classical literature, but soon confronted with him and returned to Izumi Province to live in seclusion in Mano of Omi Province.
京都で国学者大国隆正に師事したが、やがて師と対立して和泉国に下り、さらに近江国真野に隠棲。