Baron Kataoka Shichirō (片岡 七郎, 12 January 1854 – 11 January 1920) was born to a samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima prefecture), Kataoka entered the 3rd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1871, and served as a midshipman on the corvette Tsukuba.
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片岡七郎片岡七郎海軍大将