Japanese-language scholar. After graduating from the Imperial University of Tokyo, he became a temporary employee of the Committee of Investigation of the Japanese Language, and engaged in research and compilation for establishing standard Japanese. He worked as a professor at the Seventh Higher School (later Kagoshima University), the Osaka Foreign Language School (later the School of Foreign Studies at Osaka University）, Otani University and other schools. He made great achievements in research on old dictionaries and Chinese rhyming dictionaries, and on Japanese language research by Westerners. 6,900 books of the Kameda Collection are housed in the National Diet Library through the mediation of Kindaichi Kyosuke and others.