As a bureaucrat of the Okura-sho, he led staff members responsible for revisions of the Ministry of Popular Affairs (at that time Ministry of Popular Affairs and Ministry of Finance were actually integrated) and planed reform proposals and was involved in establishment of the metrological standard and National Bank regulations.
大蔵官僚として民部省改正掛（当時、民部省と大蔵省は事実上統合されていた）を率いて改革案の企画立案を行ったり、度量衡の制定や国立銀行条例制定に携わる。