On the transfer of the national capital to Tokyo, he submitted a request for the extension for it, and while he was assigned to Daigaku chu hakase (middle Doctor) -cum-Jidoku (imperial tutor) in Tokyo in 1870, he hated the governmental policy of Europeanization and resigned in October the same year.
東京奠都にあたっては猶予願を出し、1870年に東京で大学中博士兼侍読に任ぜられたものの、政府の欧化政策を嫌悪し、同年10月に辞職。