Ebara Soroku
Ebara Soroku was a samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become an educator and politician in the Meiji era.
Ebara was born in Edo as the son of a lesser retainer of the Tokugawa Shogunate, but was an exceptionally talented scholar and selected for the Shogunal military academy based on his performance at the terakoya temple schools.
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