After learning at Shoheiko (Shohei-zaka Gakumon-jo), he became a professor and dormitory superintendent of Sakujinkan, a domain school of the Morioka Domain, and instructed Takashi HARA and others.
昌平黌に学んだ後、盛岡藩の藩校である作人館の教授・寮長となり、原敬らを指導する。