He studied in Kaisei Gakko (Kaisei School) and Daiichi High School (the first old-education-system high school), and enrolled in Department of Botany, the University of Tokyo, and he graduated from the university in 1890.
開成学校、第一高等学校(旧制)から東京大学理科大学植物学科に入学し、明治23年（1890年）に同校を卒業。