Starting with a personnel in Tokyo-fu Prefecture (a councilor) to a Taijo (Senior Secretary) in Kyobusho (the Ministry of Religion), he successively filled posts of Kenrei of several prefectures, including Sakata Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture and Tochigi Prefecture, the head of engineering bureau (served concurrently as Kenrei) in prewar Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police commissioner.
東京府職員（参事）から教部省（大丞）を皮切りに、酒田県・山形県・福島県・栃木県の各県令、内務省(日本)土木局長（県令と兼任）、警視総監を歴任した。