Though he lived in Yokohama City after he was expelled from Tokyo due to hoan jorei (regulations for the preservation of law and order), he became The House of Representatives elected in the first general election of members of the House of Representatives in Diet and was selected for the House of Peers (Japan) in 1894.
保安条例で東京を追放され横浜市に住んだが、国会が開かれると第1回衆議院議員総選挙で当選して衆議院となり、1894年に貴族院(日本)に勅撰された。