Poet, critic and scholar of English literature. While attending the First Higher Middle School, he was introduced by Hirata Tokuboku and became a contributor to the magazine Bungakukai. After entering the Imperial University of Tokyo, he joined the launch of the magazine Teikoku Bungaku (Imperial Literature). After his graduation, he became a professor of the Higher Normal School and published a critical biography, Yaso (Christ), in 1899 as well as introducing foreign literature in the essay collection Saikin Kaigai Bungaku (Recent Foreign Literature) in 1901. He became a lecturer of the Imperial University of Tokyo along with Natsume Soseki in 1903. In 1905 he published a collection of translations of foreign poetry, Kaicho-on (The Sound of Ocean Waves), which had a great impact in poetry circles. After travelling abroad in 1907, he became a professor of the Imperial University of Kyoto. Later in his life, he wrote the autobiographical novel Uzumaki (Swirl) in 1910.