After the death of Shiki, he welded poets of the Negishi Tanka Society and took the lead in Tanka magazines, "Asebi" and "Araragi", and he educated Mokichi SAITO and Bunmei TSUCHIYA.
子規の没後、根岸短歌会系歌人をまとめ、短歌雑誌『馬酔木』『アララギ』の中心となって、斎藤茂吉、土屋文明などを育成した。