元帥

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 元帥 (げんすい) is a noun for the highest military rank above general or a person holding that rank.
• Basic usage: 物語の元帥は戻った makes a fictional commander the topic, while 軍服姿の元帥が描かれる makes the uniformed person the subject represented in a portrait.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Rank title and person reference
  • 元帥 names a rank, but 元帥は and 元帥が in the examples refer to a person holding it. The portrait itself is not called a marshal.