Around the Meiji Restoration, he was engaged in the business of cotton and general merchandise in Osaka and Yokohama, and from 1873 to 1881, he worked at the Osaka branch of Mitsuigumi Ginkoubu (currently known as Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) and became the CEO and executive of Dojima Rice Market Firm.
明治維新前後は大阪、横浜などで綿糸・雑貨の商業に従事し、明治6年（1873年）から明治14年（1881年）まで三井組銀行部大阪支店に勤務、取締役兼堂島米商会所重役となる。