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While in Paris, he is credited with "discovering" [[Kuroda Seiki]], a talented painter who had come to Paris to study law, and with mentoring Kuroda and encouraging him to pursue painting more seriously.

While in Paris, he is credited with "discovering" [[Kuroda Seiki]], a talented painter who had come to Paris to study law, and with mentoring Kuroda and encouraging him to pursue painting more seriously.

Hôsui returned to Japan in [[1887]], and at the end of that year joined [[Prime Minister]] [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]] and other prominent officials on an official Imperial inspection tour of Kyûshû and Okinawa. As a ''yôga'' painter, he was valued for his skill to depict reality realistically and accurately, and so he was charged with "recording" the landscapes and sights of Okinawa for the government. Upon his return to Tokyo, he presented the Imperial Household with 20 paintings depicting famous Okinawan sites such as [[Shuri castle]], [[Sogen-ji|Sôgen-ji]] and the ruins of [[Nakagusuku gusuku]], as well as other landscapes and genre scenes. These paintings remain today in the [[Museum of the Imperial Collections]] (''San no maru shôzôkan'') at the [[Tokyo Imperial Palace]].

Hôsui returned to Japan in July [[1887]], and in November to December of that year joined [[Prime Minister]] [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]] and other prominent officials on an official Imperial inspection tour of Kyûshû and Okinawa. As a ''yôga'' painter, he was valued for his skill to depict reality realistically and accurately, and so he was charged with "recording" the landscapes and sights of Okinawa for the government. Upon his return to Tokyo, he presented the Imperial Household with 20 paintings depicting famous Okinawan sites such as [[Shuri castle]], [[Sogen-ji|Sôgen-ji]] and the ruins of [[Nakagusuku gusuku]], as well as other landscapes and genre scenes. These paintings remain today in the [[Museum of the Imperial Collections]] (''San no maru shôzôkan'') at the [[Tokyo Imperial Palace]].

Hôsui opened his own painting school in [[1889]] along with [[Goda Kiyoshi|Gôda Kiyoshi]], calling it the Seikôkan. He later turned this school over to Kuroda Seiki, who renamed it the Tenshin Dôjô and made it into the premier center for ''plein-air'' painting in Japan.

Hôsui opened his own painting school in [[1889]] along with [[Goda Kiyoshi|Gôda Kiyoshi]], calling it the Seikôkan. He later turned this school over to Kuroda Seiki, who renamed it the Tenshin Dôjô and made it into the premier center for ''plein-air'' painting in Japan.