 Ijuin Gorō

Marshal Admiral Baron was a Meiji-period career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.Born in what is now part of Kagoshima city, as the son of a "samurai" retainer of Satsuma domain, he fought as a Satsuma "samurai" and foot soldier during major actions in the Boshin War (1868) against the forces loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate.