He is also known as a person who offered his demesne at the present-day Imadegawa Campus of Doshisha University to cooperate with Joseph Hardy Neesima (Joe NIIJIMA) who founded Doshisha English School (present-day Doshisha University). |
また、同志社英学校(現同志社大学)の創立者新島襄の協力者として、現在の同志社大学今出川校地の敷地を譲った人物としても知られている。 |