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
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Appointed Retired Origin Ref.
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

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References

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ja:元帥 (日本)