He won the Imperial Academy Prize for his work on rock elasticity.
[5] In 1900, he graduated from the Department of Physics, Tokyo Imperial University.
From August 1907 to December 1910, he studied abroad in Europe and visited Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
[6][7] He studied under Hantaro Nagaoka and proceeded with research on rocks and seismic waves.
[8] In 1914, he won the Imperial Academy Prize for his work on rock elasticity.