since when did i get off the normal course of being a human being . いつから わしは人間の当たり前から外れたんか
although he learnt confucianism and japanese classical literature at a domain school , meirindo school , after haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures ), he moved to sobue-mura , the ancestral land of the yokoi family , where he entered the higher normal course at aichi prefectural training school and graduated in 1876 . 藩校明倫堂で儒学・国学を学ぶが、廃藩置県後に横井氏代々の地である祖父江村に移り住み、愛知県が建てた養成学校上等師範科に移って明治9年（1876年）に卒業する。
