Several days after he embarked on a school trip in his capacity as a principal of the junior high school he established in Azabu, taking his students to Hakone, he died of cerebral apoplexy at the age of 80.
自ら設立し校長を務めた麻布中学校の箱根への遠足の数日後、脳溢血で死亡（80歳没）。