Shigemi Komatsu, Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy Spanning Two Thousand Years, Prestel Verlag GmbH + Company, 1989, p. 141, ISBN 978-3-7913-1026-8.
«He was born in the family home in Edo, son of Ikeda Munemasa (1725-1764), and was originally named Toshimasa [...] On his father's death in Meiwa 1 (1764) he inherited the clan leadership...»
