In 1884, he entered Tokyo Senmon Gakko (College) in Tokyo, where he concurrently enrolled in the Department of Law and Department of English, and after completion of the Department of Law in 1886 and the Department of English in the following year, he qualified as a notary public.
明治17年（1884年）に東京の東京専門学校に入り、法学科及び英学科を掛け持って明治19年（1886年）に法学科を翌年に英学科を修了して、公証人資格を得る。