In 1893, he graduated from Teikoku University and became an English teacher at Tokyo University of Education; however, he had an odd feeling about the Japanese studying English literature.
明治26年（1893年）、帝国大学を卒業し、東京教育大学の英語教師になるも、日本人が英文学を学ぶことに違和感を覚え始める。