Marshal-Admiral the Marquis , served as a "gensui" or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. A claiming descendant of Samurai Shijo Kingo, he has been an integral part of preserving Japanese artwork. As Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called Tōgō "the Nelson of the East".