He wrote a lot of books, including those marked as bestsellers, "Seiyo jijo" and "Bunmeiron no gairyaku," having set a trend in Japan after the Meiji Restoration to lead the Japanese to grow out of Sinocentrism and Confucianism and positively accept Western culture.
ベストセラーになった『西洋事情』や『文明論之概略』などの著作を発表し、明治維新後の日本が中華思想、儒教精神から脱却して西洋文明をより積極的に受け入れる流れを作った。