In Tokyo, he stayed in the same boarding house as Issei MAEBARA for a long time, and as he gradually became familiar with the samurai society he grew to dislike his name as a court noble and to call himself 'Boichiro.'
東京では前原一誠と同じ宿で長く一緒に過ごし、次第に武士の社会に馴染むと公家風の名を嫌って「望一郎」と名乗ったこともあった。