He studied briefly at Waseda University.
Worked as a newspaper reporter in his native place and at Tientsin. Came under the influence of socialism and then became an anarchist. He wrote uln the Army Stockade a novel based on his experience during his military ' service. Belonged to the League of Free Persons and organized the Guillotine Society, both anarchistic groups. At one time he worked among day laborers in an attempt to popularize anarchism. As head of a group of anarchists, he attempted to raise a fund to engage in violent actions like those of the nihilists in Czarist Russia and occasioned the murder case of a clerk of the Kitahama Bank in Osaka (1914). He was arrested and was executed (1926). After his death, a collection of his poems titled "The Black Bread Party Manifesto” was published.