Around that time, while making efforts to establish an academic work system in Shinshu sect Otani school without thought of himself, he explained importance of modern Buddhist studies in the societies of Buddhist and Oriental studies and strove for its education and permeation.
この間、所属する真宗大谷派において学事体制の整備に尽瘁しつつ、仏教学・東洋学の学界において近代的な仏教研究の必要性を説き、その教育・普及に勉めた。