 After graduation, Shunsō was commissioned by the Imperial Household Museum (now the Tokyo National Museum) to copy important religious paintings at Buddhist temples in Kyoto and Nara, and he also became a teacher at the "Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō" (present-day Tokyo University of the Arts)).In 1898, he joined Okakura Tenshin in establishing the "Nihon Bijutsuin".From 1903–1905, he traveled extensively overseas, holding exhibitions of his works in India, the United States and in Europe.