During this period, he also became a member of the Tokyo Academy as it was founded, and he insisted abolition of the Japanese reading of Chinese characters in the kanbun (Chinese classics), and improving the level of Chinese language education by exclusively using original Chinese reading.
この間、明治12年（1879年）の東京学士会院創設とともに会員となり、漢文訓読を廃し音読による中国語教育の水準向上を主張した。