Inoue Yoshika

Viscount Inoue Yoshika
Japanese Admiral Viscount Inoue Yoshika
Native name	井上 良馨
Born	(1845-11-03)3 November 1845 Kagoshima, Satsuma domain, Japan
Died	22 March 1929(1929-03-22) (aged 83) Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service	1868-1911
Rank	Marshal Admiral
Commands held	Un'yo Seiki Azuma Asama 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 Sacred Treasure Order of the Rising Sun Order of the Chrysanthemum

Marshal Admiral Viscount Inoue Yoshika (井上 良馨^?, 3 November 1845 – 22 March 1929) was a career naval officer and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during Meiji-period Japan.

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 severely injured by shrapnel through his left thigh 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 were able to inflict on Kagoshima. On recovery, he enlisted in the Satsuma Navy, and present at all of the major naval engagements 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 reenlisted as a lieutenant in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy, serving on the Ryūjō, rising to the position of executive officer by 1872, and returning to the Kasuga again as its captain in 1874.