In 1842, he came to Osaka and became a trainee at Shimaya dealing with futomono (cotton cloth and hemp cloth) and in 1856, he had a shop of Jisuke ABURAYA which was a branch family of Shimaya and started as a cotton merchant and became one of the best cotton warehouse merchant in Osaka.
天保13年（1842年）大坂に出て、太物商島屋で商売見習をし、安政3年（1856年）島屋の別家油屋治助の店を持ち、木綿商をはじめ、大阪屈指の木綿問屋となる。