In September of the same year, he was appointed as art examiner, and assumed office as chief examiner of the Western Historical Painting Department of the 1st Kanten (the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, originally called Bunten).
なお同年9月、美術審査員に任じられ、第一回日本美術展覧会官展の歴史（初期文展）西洋画部門審査の主任になった。