Meiji Gakuin University
Kitamura was hired as an English teacher at the Friends Girls School in 1890. He frequented the Azabu Christian Church. In 1893, he took over the post held by Shimazaki Tōson at Meiji Girls School (now Meiji Gakuin University). He also submitted literary criticism to the literary magazine "Bungakukai", which he helped launch with Shimazaki Tōson in 1893. Around this time he began to show signs of mental instability and depression.