In 1899, he became a professor of Tokyo Higher Normal School, as well as an instructor at Tokyo Imperial University, Faculty of Letters University, and he resigned the work and moved to Shanghai City in 1902.
明治32年（1899年）、東京高等師範学校教授に転じ、東京帝国大学文科大学でも講師を務め、明治35年（1902年）に職を退官し上海市に移住。