With a great coalition of the Go world in 1924 promoted by Dohei TAKABE, Karigane joined Nihon Ki-in (the Japanese Go Association); however, in the same year, Karigane, Tamejiro SUZUKI, Dohei TAKABE, Shin KATO and Chiyotaro ONODA were expelled because of their individual contracts against regulations between Hochi Shimbun and Nihon Ki-in.
高部道平らの活動による1924年の碁界大合同で日本棋院に参加するが、同年、雁金、鈴木為次郎、高部道平、加藤信、小野田千代太郎が、報知新聞と日本棋院規約に反して個人契約して除名。