Gensui (Imperial Japanese Navy)
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List of Kaigun-gensui
Note that several were promoted the same year they died; these were posthumous promotions.
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Appointed | Retired | Origin | Ref. |
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| File:Tsugumichi Saigo 2.jpg | Marquess Saigō Tsugumichi (1843–1902)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 January 1898 | 1898 | Kagoshima | |
| File:Itoh Sukeyuki.jpg | Count Itō Sukeyuki (1843–1914)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
31 January 1906 | 16 January 1914 † | ||
| File:Inoue Yoshika.jpg | Viscount Inoue Yoshika (1845–1929)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
31 October 1911 | 22 March 1929 † | ||
| File:Tōgō Heihachirō.jpg | Marquess Tōgō Heihachirō (1847–1934)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 April 1913 | 30 May 1934 † | [2] | |
| File:Prince Arisugawa Takehito.jpg | Prince Arisugawa Takehito (1862–1913)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
7 July 1913 | 10 July 1913 † | Imperial Family | |
| File:Ijuin Goro.jpg | Baron Ijūin Gorō (1852–1921)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
26 May 1917 | 13 January 1921 † | Kagoshima | |
| File:Prince Yorihito.jpg | Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito (1867–1922)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
27 June 1922 (posthumous) |
Imperial Family | ||
| File:Shimamura Hayao.jpg | Baron Shimamura Hayao (1858–1923)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
8 January 1923 (posthumous) |
Kōchi | ||
| File:Admiral Kato Tomosaburo.jpg | Baron Katō Tomosaburō (1861–1923)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 August 1923 | 24 August 1923 † | Hiroshima | |
| File:Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu 1930s.jpg | Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (1876–1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
27 May 1932 | 1945 | Imperial Family | |
| File:Portrait of Yamamoto Isoroku.jpg | Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
18 April 1943 (posthumous) |
Nagaoka | ||
| File:Admiral Osami Nagano Official Portrait c1940.png | Nagano Osami (1880–1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 June 1943 | 1945 | Kōchi | [3] |
| File:Mineichi Koga.jpg | Koga Mineichi (1885–1944)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
31 March 1944 (posthumous) |
Arita | ||
See also
References
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