 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mumakore ekuma1870 uye kutanga kwema1880, Katei aive nedenderedzwa rakakura reshamwari nevanozivana munharaunda yeTokyo literati, uye mipiro yake kumabasa ekubatana yakawanda. Zvisinei, sezvo nguva nemhando yenzvimbo dzekuita hunyanzvi zvachinja, Katei akaendesa mabasa kuDomestic Industrial Exhibitions 1877, 1881 na1890 uye Makwikwi Ekupenda Mifananidzo 1882 na1884, uye aive nhengo yepakati yeJapan Art Association Nihon Bijutsu Kyōkai, yakavambwa muna 1888. Akatumirawo mabasa ake kumitambo yenyika dzakawanda muViennaPhiladelphia 1876, Chicago 1893, uye Paris 1900. Kubva muna 1881 zvichienda mberi akagadzira mabasa mazhinji emhuri yeumambo; aive mupendi anobhadharwa zvakanyanya muchirongwa chekushongedza imba nyowani yeumambo, yakapera muna 1888, uye muna 1893 akagadzwa seImperial Household Artist. Akadzidzisa nhamba huru yevadzidzi, pakati pevanonyanya kukosha vaive Ishibashi Kazunori, Satō Shien, naYamamoto Shōun. 