Gensui (Imperial Japanese Navy)

Kaigun-gensui (海軍元帥, Marshal of the Navy), formal rank designations: Gensui-kaigun-taishō (元帥海軍大将, Marshal-admiral) 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.

Kaigun-gensui
海軍元帥
Gensui Badge
Country Japanese Empire
Service branch Imperial Japanese Navy
Formation20 January 1898
Abolished1945
Next higher rankDai-gensui
Next lower rankAdmiral
Equivalent ranksGensui (Army)

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.
Marquis
Saigō Tsugumichi
(1843–1902)		 20 January 1898 Kagoshima
Count
Itō Sukeyuki
(1843–1914)		 31 January 1906
Viscount
Inoue Yoshika
(1845–1929)		 31 October 1911
Marquis
Tōgō Heihachirō
(1847–1934)		 21 April 1913
Prince
Arisugawa Takehito
(1862–1913)		 7 July 1913
(posthumous)		 Imperial Family
Baron
Ijūin Gorō
(1852–1921)		 26 May 1917 Kagoshima
Prince
Higashifushimi Yorihito
(1867–1922)		 27 June 1922
(posthumous)		 Imperial Family
Baron
Shimamura Hayao
(1858–1923)		 8 January 1923
(posthumous)		 Kōchi
Baron
Katō Tomosaburō
(1861–1923)		 23 August 1923 24 August 1923 † Hiroshima
Prince
Fushimi Hiroyasu
(1876–1946)		 27 May 1932 1945 Imperial Family
Yamamoto Isoroku
(1884–1943)		 18 April 1943
(posthumous)		 Nagaoka
Nagano Osami
(1880–1947)		 21 June 1943 1945 Kōchi
Koga Mineichi
(1885–1944)		 31 March 1944
(posthumous)		 Arita

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