Entrusted with a letter (with the sovereign's message) composed by Nobuyoshi SAWA (the Minister of the Foreign Affairs in Japan) and addressed to the Minister of Rites (in Joseon), he left Tokyo for Joseon via Tsushima, together with Shigeru MORI (as a Gaimu-shosakan officer) and Hironobu HIROTSU.
彼は澤宣嘉（外務大臣(日本)）による（朝鮮側）礼曹判書宛の書契（国書）を携えて森山茂（外務少録）・広津弘信らとともに東京を出発、対馬を経由して朝鮮に赴いた。