Accordingly, Nagazane MOTODA and Kuki, whose ideals were Confucianist, left the Ministry of Education in May of the same year, and Kuki went to Washington, D.C. as the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
そのため、元田永孚とともに儒学的な指向だった九鬼は同年5月に文部省を去り、特命全権公使としてワシントンD.C.に赴任した。