In December, 1884, he was appointed as Vice-chief of Military Affairs Division (later Military Order Division), and after assuming the post of First Bureau Chief of the Navy Division of the Staff Headquarters, in 1886, he was promoted to Rear Admiral and Commander of the Yokosuka Naval Port, and until the next year he held the concurrent post of Commandant of Naval Engineering College.
1884年12月に軍事部（後の軍令部）次長となり、参謀本部海軍部第1局長を経て、1886年に海軍少将・横須賀軍港司令官、翌年まで海軍機関学校校長を兼務。