He was the first chief doctor at Sotojima Hoyoen Sanatorium (1909–1923) and wrote many papers on leprosy.
Sotojima Hoyoen was a public leprosy sanatorium present in Osaka Prefecture between 1909 and 1934.
After qualification as a pharmacist in 1890, he studied at Saisei Gakusha, a private medical school and was qualified as a physician in 1892.
In September 1898, he went to the Yoikuin Hospital Tokyo, two months after Kensuke Mitsuda.
In 1903, he taught pathology, forensic medicine and psychiatry at Osaka Higher Medical school.