In May, 1863, he met the then chief retainer of the Takato Domain, Kikuso OKAMURA and asked him to write a foreword to a collection of haiku, "Echigo shishi."
文久3年（1863年）5月、高遠藩の当時の家老・岡村菊叟と面会し、句集『越後獅子』の序文を乞う。