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Gensui (Imperial Japanese Navy)
Highest rank in the prewar Imperial Japanese Navy
Highest rank in the prewar Imperial Japanese Navy
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Kaigun-gensui |
| native_name | 海軍元帥 |
| image | 元帥徽章.svg |
| image_size | 100 |
| caption | Gensui Badge |
| country | Japanese Empire |
| service branch | |
| formation | 20 January 1898 |
| abolished | 1945 |
| higher rank | Dai-gensui |
| lower rank | Admiral |
| equivalents | Gensui (Army) |
| Non-NATO rank =
Kaigun-gensui, formal rank designations: Gensui-kaigun-taishō was the highest rank in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The term gensui was used for both the navy and the Imperial Japanese Army, and was a largely honorific title awarded for extremely meritorious service to the Emperor. In the Meiji period, the title was awarded to five generals and three admirals. In the Taishō period it was awarded to six generals and six admirals, and in the Shōwa period it was awarded to six generals and four admirals. It was similar to Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy and Fleet admiral in the United States Navy.
List of ''Kaigun-gensui''
Note that several were promoted the same year they died; these were posthumous promotions.
| Portrait | Name | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Birth–Death) | Appointed | Retired | Origin | Ref. | ||||||||
| [[File:Tsugumichi Saigo 2.jpg | 75px]] | Marquess | ||||||||||
| Saigō Tsugumichi | ||||||||||||
| (1843–1902) | 20 January 1898 | 1898 | Kagoshima | |||||||||
| [[File:Itoh Sukeyuki.jpg | 75px]] | Count | ||||||||||
| Itō Sukeyuki | ||||||||||||
| (1843–1914) | 31 January 1906 | 16 January 1914 † | ||||||||||
| [[File:Inoue Yoshika.jpg | 75px]] | Viscount | ||||||||||
| Inoue Yoshika | ||||||||||||
| (1845–1929) | 31 October 1911 | 22 March 1929 † | ||||||||||
| [[File:Tōgō Heihachirō.jpg | 75px]] | Marquess | ||||||||||
| Tōgō Heihachirō | ||||||||||||
| (1847–1934) | 21 April 1913 | 30 May 1934 † | last=Kita | first=Ikki | title=IKKI KITA SOCIALIST SELECTIONS: ARTICLES AND LETTERS FROM 1906 TO 1937 | publisher=Ryota Nakanishi | date=2025-05-24 | isbn=978-988-76066-9-7 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/IKKI_KITA_SOCIALIST_SELECTIONS/r9xfEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%2522Gensui%2522+Imperial+Japanese+Navy+-wikipedia&pg=PA10&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-07-22 | page=}} | |
| [[File:Prince Arisugawa Takehito.jpg | 75px]] | Prince | ||||||||||
| Arisugawa Takehito | ||||||||||||
| (1862–1913) | 7 July 1913 | 10 July 1913 † | Imperial Family | |||||||||
| [[File:Ijuin Goro.jpg | 75px]] | Baron | ||||||||||
| Ijūin Gorō | ||||||||||||
| (1852–1921) | 26 May 1917 | 13 January 1921 † | Kagoshima | |||||||||
| [[File:Prince Yorihito.jpg | 75px]] | Prince | ||||||||||
| Higashifushimi Yorihito | ||||||||||||
| (1867–1922) | 27 June 1922 | |||||||||||
| (posthumous) | Imperial Family | |||||||||||
| [[File:Shimamura Hayao.jpg | 75px]] | Baron | ||||||||||
| Shimamura Hayao | ||||||||||||
| (1858–1923) | 8 January 1923 | |||||||||||
| (posthumous) | Kōchi | |||||||||||
| [[File:Admiral Kato Tomosaburo.jpg | 75px]] | Baron | ||||||||||
| Katō Tomosaburō | ||||||||||||
| (1861–1923) | 23 August 1923 | 24 August 1923 † | Hiroshima | |||||||||
| [[File:Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu 1930s.jpg | 75px]] | Prince | ||||||||||
| Fushimi Hiroyasu | ||||||||||||
| (1876–1946) | 27 May 1932 | 1945 | Imperial Family | |||||||||
| [[File:Portrait of Yamamoto Isoroku.jpg | 75px]] | Yamamoto Isoroku | ||||||||||
| (1884–1943) | 18 April 1943 | |||||||||||
| (posthumous) | Nagaoka | |||||||||||
| [[File:Admiral Osami Nagano Official Portrait c1940.png | 75px]] | Nagano Osami | ||||||||||
| (1880–1947) | 21 June 1943 | 1945 | Kōchi | last=Bradley | first=F. J. | title=He Gave the Order: The Life and Times of Admiral Osami Nagano | publisher=Lulu.com | date=2015-04-25 | isbn=978-1-57638-371-1 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/He_Gave_the_Order_The_Life_and_Times_of/f7nGCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%2522Gensui%2522+Imperial+Japanese+Navy+-wikipedia&pg=PA12&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-07-22 | page=}} |
| [[File:Mineichi Koga.jpg | 75px]] | Koga Mineichi | ||||||||||
| (1885–1944) | 31 March 1944 | |||||||||||
| (posthumous) | Arita |
References
ja:元帥 (日本)
References
- Kowner, Rotem. (2009-08-20). "The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War". Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
- Kita, Ikki. (2025-05-24). "IKKI KITA SOCIALIST SELECTIONS: ARTICLES AND LETTERS FROM 1906 TO 1937". Ryota Nakanishi.
- Bradley, F. J.. (2015-04-25). "He Gave the Order: The Life and Times of Admiral Osami Nagano". Lulu.com.
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