He was born at a Buddhist temple on January 26, 1905, in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture.
After graduation from Chiba Prefectural Horticulture School, he worked at Zensho Hospital.
As a graduate of Chiba Horticulture School, he worked for the greening of the hospitals, and it was said that all trees at Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium were transplanted except pine trees.
At the Zenshoen Hospital, he was one of the five active men, following Fumio Hayashi, Einosuke Shionuma, Isamu Tajiri and Kouzou Fujita.
He was appointed the first manager of Okinawa Airakuen Sanatorium and started with digging wells.