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[[File:Nakatsu.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Gravestone at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] for Masuda and the 21 other men from Nakatsu who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]]]
*''Died: [[1877]]/9/4''
*''Japanese'': 増田栄太郎 ''(Masuda Eitarou)''

Masuda Eitarô was the leader of a group of over eighty men from Nakatsu in [[Oita prefecture|Ôita prefecture]] who fought in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]. Of that group, 22 died in battle, with Masuda himself being killed at age 28 in the battle of Komekura (in [[Kagoshima]] City) on Sept 4, [[1877]].

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==References==
*Plaques on-site at the Nanshû Cemetery.

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