He then established Kunmoin (Training School for the Blind), the predecessor of the Tokyo School for the Blind and the Deaf (present School for the Visually Impaired of the Special Support Education, University of Tsukuba), with Masanao NAKAMURA, Ginko KISHIDA, Yozo YAMAO, Henry Faulds and others.
中村正直、岸田吟香、山尾庸三、ヘンリー・フォールズらと東京盲亞学校（現筑波大学附属視覚特別支援学校）の前身・訓盲院を創設した。