His short life and only 3 years of his service to the government may be too small to be remembered. In fact his popularity among the Meiji statesmen is pretty low. I can not find his grave although his funeral was recorded in both Japanese and US newspapers and he is said to be buried in Aoyama Cemetery where a good number of Meiji officers rest and still receive visitors. Simply, his life was just a seed of the success of the Japanese modernization called the Meiji Restoration. It’s one of millions but we find its flowers and fruits in the following generations on the bright side. His life is a story of a kernel of wheat.