Kataoka Shichirō

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Baron

Kataoka Shichirō
Satsuma, Japan
Died11 January 1920(1920-01-11) (aged 65)
Tokyo, Japan
AllegianceEmpire of Japan
Service/branchImperial Japanese Navy
Years of service1871–1918
RankAdmiral
Commands held
Battles/wars
AwardsOrder of the Rising Sun

Order of the Sacred Treasure

Order of the Golden Kite
In this Japanese name, the surname is Kataoka.

Baron Kataoka Shichirō (片岡 七郎, 12 January 1854 – 11 January 1920) was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Biography

Early career

Born to a

Kagoshima prefecture), Kataoka entered the 3rd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1871, and served as a midshipman on the corvette Tsukuba
.

Kataoka, accompanied

German ships
Vineta and Leipzig from 1877-1878.

Serving as a

naval attaché, with his primary duties as providing assistance to Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito and Prince Yamashina Kikumaro during their travels in Europe. He was recalled to Japan at the start of the First Sino-Japanese War
in 1894.

First Sino-Japanese War

Appointed to the

Pescadores expedition and conquest of Taiwan
between late 1894 and early 1895.

Following the war, Kataoka served on a number of various fleet and shore posts and was promoted to

Resident-General of Korea and also turned down a posting as Governor-General of Taiwan
, stating that as a navy man, he did not have the ability to handle territorial issues. In reality, he had no interest in politics at all.

Russo-Japanese War

During the opening months of the

3rd Fleet, a collection of antiquated ships nicknamed the "Funny Fleet". Despite the motley assortment of obsolete ships, Kataoka won distinction commanding the fifth and sixth battle divisions from the cruiser Nisshin during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and later from the cruiser Itsukushima during the Battle of Tsushima. He also led the naval expedition to seize Sakhalin prior to the conclusion of the Treaty of Portsmouth
.

A year after the war, Kataoka became chief of the Navy Ministry's Department of Ships.

In 1907, Kataoka was elevated to the title of danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system, and was promoted to full admiral and made commander-in-chief of the 1st Fleet in 1910, before being placed on the reserve list the following year.

Kataoka lived in retirement until his death in 1920. His grave is at the Tama Cemetery in Tokyo.

References

Books

  • Dupuy, Trevor N. (1992). Encyclopedia of Military Biography. I B Tauris & Co.
    ISBN 1-85043-569-3
    .
  • Paine, S.C.M (2002). The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy. London: Cambridge University Press.
    ISBN 0-521-81714-5
    .
  • Schencking, J. Charles (2005). Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. Stanford University Press.
    ISBN 0-8047-4977-9
    .
  • Warner, Denis; Warner, Peggy (1974). The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War', 1904-1905. Charterhouse.
    ISBN 9780883270318
    .

External links

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