Nire Kagenori

Viscount Nire Kagenori (仁礼 景範, 6 April 1831 – 22 November 1900) was a Japanese admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy, and served as Navy Minister in the late 19th century.

From April 1878 to February 1880, he was Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy.

On 7 July 1884, he was ennobled with the title of viscount (shishaku) under the kazoku peerage system.

From 8 August 1892 to 11 March 1893, Nire served as Naval Minister in the 2nd cabinet of Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi, where he made efforts to increase naval budgets and to build the strength of the navy for what he perceived to be a growing possibility of war with China.

His son, Nire Kageo, was a noted entomologist who wrote numerous scientific texts on the insects of the Korean peninsula and Taiwan.