(20 May 1843 – 16 January 1914) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Meiji-period. Born in Kagoshima, the son of a "samurai" of the Satsuma domain, he studied naval construction and gunnery and participated in the Anglo-Satsuma War. Before the Boshin War, he had already relocated to Edo and placed his naval skills at the service of the forces striving to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. Wikipedia
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