He served as Shoyu (a Junior Assistant Minister) of the Ministry of Education (the present deputy secretary of the Ministry of Education), the first chief of the Imperial Museum (the present National Museum), a member of Kizokuin (the House of Peers), as well as an imperial court councilor of Sumitsu-in (Privy Council) (Japan).
文部少輔（現在の文部省事務次官）、帝国博物館（現・国立博物館）初代総長、貴族院議員、枢密院(日本)宮中顧問官などを務めた。