After the war, aiming to shift from philosophy to literature, he quit his job and entered the graduate school of the University of Tokyo in order to study under Yutaka TATSUNO, but Tatsuno retired that very year.
戦後、哲学から文学への転向を目指し、辰野隆に師事すべく職を捨てて東大大学院に入るが辰野はその年退官であった。