Tōgō Heihachirō
| Marshal-Admiral The Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō Saneyoshi | |
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| Nickname(s) | "The Nelson of the East" |
| Born |
27 January 1848 Kajiya-Chō, Kagoshima-Jōka, Satsuma, Japan |
| Died | 30 May 1934 (aged 86) Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance |
 Empire of Japan
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| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Years of service | 1863–1913 |
| Rank | Marshal-Admiral |
| Battles/wars |
Anglo-Satsuma War Boshin War First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
| Awards | Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum Order of the Golden Kite (First Class) Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure Order of Merit Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order |
| Other work | Tutor to Crown Prince Hirohito |
Marshal-Admiral Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō, OM, GCVO (東郷 平八郎; 27 January 1848 – 30 May 1934), was a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. He was termed by Western journalists as "the Nelson of the East".
Tōgō was born on 27 January 1848 in the Kajiya-chō () district of the city of Kagoshima in Satsuma domain (modern-day Kagoshima Prefecture), in feudal Japan, the third of four sons of Togo Kichizaemon, a samurai serving the Shimazu daimyō, and Hori Masuko (1812–1901).
Kajiya-chō was one of Kagoshima's samurai housing-districts, in which many other influential figures of the Meiji period were born, such as Saigō Takamori and Ōkubo Toshimichi. They rose to prominent positions under the Meiji Emperor partly because the Shimazu clan had been a decisive military and political factor in the Boshin War against the Tokugawa shogunate during the Meiji Restoration.
Tōgō's first experience at war was at the age of 15 during the Bombardment of Kagoshima (August 1863), in which Kagoshima was shelled by the Royal Navy to punish the Satsuma daimyō for the death of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tōkaidō highway the previous year (the Namamugi Incident), and the Japanese refusal to pay an indemnity in compensation.
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