Inoue Yoshika
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| Inoue Yoshika | |
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| 3 November 1845 - 22 March 1929[1] | |
 Japanese Admiral Viscount Inoue Yoshika |
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| Place of birth | Kagoshima, Satsuma domain, Japan |
| Place of death | Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch |  Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Years of service | 1868 -1911 |
| Rank | Fleet Admiral |
| Commands held | Unyo, Kōtetsu, Fusō, Kongō Imperial Japanese Navy Academy Readiness Fleet Sasebo Naval District Kure Naval District Yokosuka Naval District |
| Battles/wars | Boshin War Satsuma Rebellion First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
| Awards | Order of the Chrysanthemum |
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Inoue.
Fleet Admiral Viscount Yoshika Inoue (井上良馨 Inoue Yoshika?) (3 November 1845 - 22 March 1929) was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during Meiji-period.
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[edit] Biography
Born in what is now part of Kagoshima city, as the son of a samurai retainer of the Satsuma domain, Inoue took part in the Anglo-Satsuma War as a youth. Although injured during the fighting, he was extremely impressed with the firepower of the Royal Navy and the amount of material damage that only a few vessels was able to inflict on Kagoshima. On recovery, he enlisted in the Satsuma domain Navy, and thus played an important role in the naval campaigns associated with the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, as commander of the Satsuma warship Kasuga.
After the Meiji Restoration and the absorption of the various feudal navies into central government control, Inoue became a naval officer in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy.
At the time of the Ganghwa Island incident (1875) with Korea, Inoue Yoshika was captain of the gunboat Unyo. He later served as captain of several other warships in the early Imperial Japanese Navy, and fought against his former Satsuma clansmen in the Satsuma Rebellion.
He was promoted to rear admiral on 15 June 1886, and appointed Director of the Bureau of Naval Affairs shortly thereafter. He was ennobled with the title of danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system on 24 May 1887.
Inoue became first Director of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy on 16 August 1888. He became Commander-in-Chief of the Readiness Fleet on 29 July 1889, a vice admiral on 12 December 1892, and admiral on 12 December 1901.
After the Russo-Japanese War, he was elevated to shishaku (viscount) on 21 September 1907, and to the largely ceremonial rank of Fleet Admiral on his retirement on 31 October 1911.
Inoue died in 1922. His grave is in his hometown of Kagoshima.
[edit] References
[edit] Books
- Hoare, J.E. (1999). Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. III. California, USA: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 1-873410-89-1.
- Schencking, J. Charles (2005). Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. California, USA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4977-9.
[edit] External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. Materials of IJN: Inoue, Yoshika. Imperial Japanese Navy. Retrieved on 2007-08-03.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Nishida, Imperial Japanese Navy
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