Social entrepreneur. He entered Okayama Class-A Medical School in 1882 and became a Christian in 1884. In 1887, he rented Sanyu-ji Temple in Okayama to establish the Orphan Education Association (later Okayama Orphanage) and started to help orphans. In 1891, he took in orphans from the Nobi Earthquake and tried to run the orphanage self-sufficiently. In his later years, he devoted his efforts to protecting mothers and children from the urban lower class, and in 1909 established Aizenbashi Nursery School, Aizenbashi Night School, and Nihonbashi Dojokan in the Minami Ward (later Naniwa Ward) of Osaka City.