Kawade exhibited works at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, at Japan's fifth National Industrial Exposition in 1903, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, at the Universal and International Exposition in Liège in 1905, and at the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 in London. He won a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco.