At the former Fifth High School in Kumamoto, where Uzan worked from 1897, he became a colleague and good adviser of Soseki NATSUME, and they deepened their friendship through prose and poetry, etc.
明治30年（1897年）から勤めた熊本の第五高等学校(旧制)では夏目漱石の同僚となってよき相談相手となり詩文などでも親交を深めた。