Mutsu Hirokichi

Who was Mutsu Hirokichi?

Count Mutsu Hirokichi was a Japanese diplomat and an educator in Meiji and Taishō period Japan.

He was the oldest son of Munemitsu Mutsu who was Minister for Foreign Affairs and Ryōko Mutsu. He went to the U.K. to study in 1887. He became a diplomat in 1895 and had resided in London and in Rome etc., and married a British writer Iso Mutsu in those days. He came with her to Japan in 1910 and became an Envoy in 1914, but presently, retired from one due to disease. Thereafter he lived in Kamakura, Kanagawa until his death in 1942 and economically supported along with Iso Kamakura-jo-gakkō, a girl's high school in Kamakura, and exerted themselves to conserve historic site.