He entered government service to work in Bureau for Encouragement of Agriculture of Ministry of Interior, and in 1869, he went to Paris to study by accompanying Count Montblanc who had been appointed Consul General in France.
内務省勧農局に出仕し、1869年（明治2年）には在フランス総領事モンブラン伯爵に随行してパリへ留学。