Ogasawara Naganari

Viscount Ogasawara Naganari was an Admiral and naval strategist in the Imperial Japanese Navy in Meiji and Taish period Japan, and a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff. He was also known as Ogasawara Chsei, Ogasawara Nagayo.

Ogasawara was born in Saga prefecture. His father was the Rj Ogasawara Nagamichi, a senior retainer of the Tokugawa shogunate. As his father was forced into retirement by the events of the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration. Ogasawara Naganari succeeded his grandfather to become head of the Ogasawara clan in 1873, and as viscount under the kazoku peerage system. He attended the Gakushuin Peers School, and subsequently graduated 35th out of 45 cadets at the 14th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy. One of his classmates was the future Prime Minister of Japan Kantar Suzuki.

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