Afterward, he visited Sendai City to raise funds for building orphanages, and got to know Kokko SOMA (also called Kokko, 1876 – 1955), a daughter of a feudal retainer of Sendai Domain, and got married her in 1898.
のち、孤児院基金募集のため仙台市へ出掛け、仙台藩士の娘・相馬黒光（黒光、1876年-1955年）を知り、明治31年結婚。