Mutsu Hirokichi
Count Mutsu Hirokichi was a Japanese diplomat and an educator in Meiji- and Taishō-period Japan.
He was the oldest son of Mutsu Munemitsu who was Minister for Foreign Affairs. 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 Mutsu Iso 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 in Kanagawa Prefecture until his death in 1942 and economically supported along with Iso :ja:鎌倉女学院中学校・高等学校|Kamakura-jo-gakkō, a girl's high school in Kamakura, and exerted themselves to conserve historic site.Family tree
