Mutsu Hirokichi

Mutsu Hirokichi
Mutsu Hirokichi
陸奥 広吉

Mutsu Hirokichi
Born March 5, 1869
Japan
Died 1942
Kamakura, Japan
Residence Kamakura, Japan
Occupation Diplomat, Educator
Spouse Iso Mutsu
Children Ian Mutsu

Count Mutsu Hirokichi (陸奥 広吉?, March 5, 1869- November 19, 1942) was a Japanese diplomat and a 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 (now Kamakura-jo-gakuin girl's junior high and high school), and exerted themselves to conserve historic site.

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