While he was writing reviews on plays or reports on society as a journalist under the name of Kyokido, in 1891 he published a novel, 'Takamatsu-jo' (Takamatsu-jo Castle), in the Tokyo Nichinichi newspaper.
記者として狂綺堂の名で劇評や社会探訪記事を書きながら、1891年、東京日日新聞に小説「高松城」を発表。