 In his youth Shimano was ordained as novice monk by Kengan Goto, the priest of Empuku-ji, the Rinzai temple in Chichibu.Kengan Goto gave him the Dharma name Eido, composed from first characters of two Japanese Zen founders, Eisai and Dogen.Later he was trained by Shirozou Keizan Roshi, abbot of Heirin-ji, near Tokyo.