He was the first physician-director of the sanatorium which like other public sanitoriums would normally have been run by police officials from local stations.
He graduated from Tokyo University and in 1909 he became the first director of Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium on the recommendation of Prof. Masanori Ogata of the department of Sanitary Sciences at Tokyo University.
In 1926-7, he traveled to Fjerritslev in Denmark, visiting various places including a trip to the Bergen Sanatorium in Norway.
He died suddenly of penetrating peritonitis during a visit to the Tsuetate hot spring in Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28, 1933.
When he died suddenly, patients composed many Bon Buddhist dance songs.