 He worked teaching English at a seminary on Lot 18 of the Kawaguchi foreign settlement in Osaka before beginning his activities as an architect.His first job was the planning of the Harris Science Hall at Doshisha University.He continued on to design the clubhouse of the newly renamed Kobe Club at the Kobe foreign settlement, and was thereafter involved in the planning of many more structures both inside the foreign settlement and in the surrounding mixed residential zone.