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Mutsu Munemitsu

Count Mutsu Munemitsu (陸奥 宗光, August 20, 1844 – August 24, 1897) was a Japanese diplomat and politician. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1890 and worked to revise unequal treaties. He served as plenipotentiary at the peace conference in Shimonoseki after the First Sino-Japanese War.

In this Japanese name, the surname is Mutsu.

Count
Mutsu Munemitsu
陸奥 宗光

(1844-08-20)August 20, 1844

Kii Province, Japan

August 24, 1897(1897-08-24) (aged 53)

Takinogawa, Japan

Japanese

Mutsu Yonosuke

Diplomat, Cabinet Minister

Mutsu Ryōko

Early life[edit]

Mutsu Munemitsu was born in Wakayama domain, Kii Province as the sixth son of Date Munehiro, a samurai retainer of the Kii Tokugawa clan. His father was active in the Sonnō jōi movement, and Mutsu Munemitsu joined forces with Sakamoto Ryōma and Itō Hirobumi in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1895)

ribbon bar

(1897)

Senior Second Rank

Cortazzi, Hugh. Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume V. Global Oriental (2004)  1-901903-48-6

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Mutsu, Munemitsu. (1982). Kenkenroku (trans. Gordon Mark Berger). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.  9780860083061; OCLC 252084846

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Perez, Louis. Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (1999).  0-8386-3804-X

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Perez, Louis. Mutsu Munemitsu and Identity Formation of the Individual and the State in Modern Japan. Edwin Mellen Press (2001).  0-7734-7366-1

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Okazaki, Hisahiko (2018). . Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture. Archived from the original on 2019-05-27. Retrieved 2019-05-27.

Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time

National Diet Library photos and biography