By a strange coincidence, his friend and Doshin-kumigashira (head of a police constable) Ibaraki gave him more details of Yukiyasu's treatments, then he felt something and soon went to Wakayama to meet Yukiyasu, and he eventually took the oath and became Yukiyasu's pupil.
縁あって幸安の話を知人の同心組頭茨木某より更に詳細に伝え聞くや感ずる処もあって、早速若山の島田幸安の寓居に訪ねて行き正式に入門の誓詞を提出して直接教えを乞う事になる。