In the Hakodate government (the short-lived Republic of Ezo), he belonged to rikugunbugyonami (military police) headed by Toshizo HIJIKATA and served as a pageboy to the President Takeaki ENOMOTO.
箱館政権(蝦夷共和国)では陸軍奉行並土方歳三に所属する榎本総裁附きの小姓となる。