He is also known as a kana (the Japanese syllabary) advocate, and he expressed his opinion in an article on a magazine of Meirokusha (Japan's first academic society), regarding the necessity of spreading hiragana (the rounded Japanese phonetic syllabary) throughout the country to improve the knowledge and culture of entire citizens.
また仮名(文字)論者としても知られ、明六社の機関誌明六雑誌に、ひらがなの普及が国民全体の知識や教養の向上に役立つと主張した。