He went back to his hometown, and he established Sekiyosha in his duty station, Ishikawa-machi, Fukushima Prefecture, and it became the pioneer of Jiyu Minken Undo in Tohoku Region.
郷里に戻り、任地である福島県石川町で石陽社を設立し、東北地方の自由民権運動のさきがけとなった。