After that, he served in a variety of posts such as the examiner of the third National Industrial Exhibition and Bureau for provisional national inspection of treasure, and in 1906, he became the first kenkokuka who was elected as Teishitsu Gigeiin (Imperial art expert).
その後、第3回内国勧業博覧会審査官・臨時全国宝物取調局査掛などを歴任し、明治39年（1906年）、篆刻家として初めて帝室技芸員に選出される。