Kawamura Kageaki
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| Viscount Kawamura Kageaki | |
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| (8 April 1850 - 28 April 1926) | |
 Japanese General Viscount Kawamura Kageaki |
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| Place of birth | Kagoshima, Satsuma domain |
| Place of death | Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Commands | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Battles/wars | Boshin War First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
| Awards | Order of the Golden Kite (1st class) Order of the Rising Sun (1st class with Paulownia Blossoms, Grand Cordon) Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum. |
Viscount Kageaki Kawamura (川村 景明 Kawamura Kageaki?) (8 April 1850 - 28 April 1926) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army.
He was born in Kagoshima to a samurai family of the Satsuma han domain. He first fought in the Anglo-Satsuma War. He was part of the Satsuma forces in the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration he was appointed commander of the Imperial Guards. He also served as field commander in the suppression of various insurrections during the early years of the Meiji era, including the Hagi Rebellion and the Satsuma Rebellion.
Kawamura led his Imperial Guards division in the First Sino-Japanese War and went to the front in Taiwan as field commander. On the conclusion of that war, he was ennobled by Emperor Meiji with the title of danshaku (baron).
In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 he succeeded Prince Fushimi Sadanaru as commander of the Japanese 10th Division, and served notably as field commander at the Battle of Yalu River (1904) and the Battle of Mukden. After Japan's victory, Emperor Meiji elevated him to the rank of shishaku (viscount).
After the war, he served as chief of the Tokyo Garrison, and in 1915 he became a field marshal.
His Japanese decorations included the Order of the Golden Kite (1st class), Order of the Rising Sun (1st class with Paulownia Blossoms, Grand Cordon) and the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum.
His grave is at Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.
[edit] References
- Dupuy, Trevor N. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-7858-0437-4
- Jansen, Marius B. and Gilbert Rozman, eds. Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
- Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
