Two years later, the Ministry of Education ordered Shokei to go to Germany to study organic chemistry under August Wilhelm von Hofmann, who was at the Humboldt University of Berlin, after which Shokei studied pharmacy and hygienics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
2年後、文部省の命令でドイツに留学し、ベルリン大学のホフマンの下で有機化学を学び、ついでミュンヘン大学で薬学・衛生学を学んだ。