On May 14, 1848, he was appointed to Hokyo (a title for the third highest rank of doctors, artists, scholars, and so on adopted from the Buddhist hierarchy) because of his skill in calligraphy, and on July 1 of the same year, he wrote calligraphy on a gaku (framed piece of calligraphy) for Mandara-in Temple at Mt. Hiei, and as a result of that achievement he was appointed to Hogen (a title for the second highest rank of doctors, artists, scholars, and so on adopted from the Buddhist hierarchy).
1848年5月14日書をもって法橋に叙せられ同年7月1日比叡山漫陀羅院の額を書しその功によって法眼に任ぜられた。