the national humiliation. He resigned all government posts in May 1896 and moved to Ōiso, Kanagawa, where he wrote his personal diplomatic memoirs Kenkenroku (蹇々録) after the treaty was signed to explain his views and actions. However, his memoirs could not be published until 1923 due to the diplomatic secrets they contained. Mutsu lived in what is now Kyu-Furukawa Gardens. Mutsu died of tuberculosis in Takinogawa, Tokyo Prefecture in 1897. Mutsu was ennobled with the title of hakushaku (count) under the kazoku peerage system at the end of the Sino-Japanese War. Honors Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1895) Senior Second Rank (1897) Family tree Notes References Cortazzi, Hugh. Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume V. Global Oriental (2004) Mutsu, Munemitsu. (1982). Kenkenroku (trans. Gordon Mark Berger). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ; OCLC 252084846 Perez, Louis. Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (1999). Perez, Louis. Mutsu Munemitsu and Identity Formation of the Individual and the State in Modern Japan. Edwin Mellen Press (2001). Further reading External links National Diet Library photos and biography 1844 births 1897 deaths Meiji Restoration Japanese diplomats People from Wakayama (city) Kazoku People of the First Sino-Japanese War 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis People of Meiji-period Japan Tuberculosis deaths in Japan Foreign ministers of Japan Government ministers of Japan Members of the House of Representatives (Empire of Japan) Governors of Hyōgo Prefecture Governors of Kanagawa Prefecture Kansai University alumni