In 1903 on the occasion of the fifth Domestic Industrial Promotion Exhibition, he, together with Sentaro YAMAOKA and others, planned to establish a zoo in Osaka and published "Yokyo Dobutsu-en Shuyo Dobutsu Mokuroku oyobi Kaisetsu" (a list and explanation of animals which could be kept in the zoo).
明治36年（1903）の第五回内国勧業博覧会に際し、大阪での動物園設置を山岡千太郎らとはかり、『余興動物園集容動物目録及解説』を出版する。