In Washington, D.C., he displayed a few hundreds of Japanese paintings in the guest room in order to introduce Japanese art, and also proposed the Ministry of Education that the antiquities should be preserved as national treasures in order to prevent them from going to foreign countries.
ワシントンでは公使館の客間に数百幅の日本画を飾って日本美術を紹介し、また古美術品の海外流出防止の観点から国宝保存を文部省や宮内省に進言している。