Although he lost his wife Toshiko AKAMATSU to tuberculosis in January 1900, he found out not only a new hobby but also a new wife, Shige ARAKI, eighteen years younger than him, whom he married in January 1902 after a formal marriage interview with her, which had been encouraged by his mother (it was a second marriage for both of them).
新たな趣味を得ただけではなく、1900年1月に赤松登志子（旧妻）が結核で死亡したのち、母の勧めるまま1902年1月、18歳年下の荒木志げと見合い結婚をした（再婚同士）。