Editing Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (section)

===Early life===
Yamamoto was born in [[Kagoshima]] in [[Satsuma Province]] (now [[Kagoshima Prefecture]]) as the sixth son of a [[samurai]] who served as a secretary and ''[[sōjutsu]]'' master of the [[Shimazu clan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gibney |first=Frank |title=Buritanika Kokusai Daihyakkajiten |publisher=TBS-BRITANNICA |year=1995 |at=山本権兵衛 |oclc=55231838}}</ref> As a youth, he took part in the [[Anglo-Satsuma War]]. He later joined Satsuma's Eighth Rifle Troop in the [[Boshin War]] that ended the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], fighting at the [[Battle of Toba–Fushimi]] and other locations; he was also aboard one of the ships that pursued [[Enomoto Takeaki]] and the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet to [[Hokkaidō]] in 1869. After the success of the [[Meiji Restoration]], Yamamoto attended preparatory schools in [[Tokyo]] and entered the 2nd class of the [[Imperial Japanese Naval Academy]] in 1870. At the time of the [[Satsuma Rebellion]], he briefly returned to Kagoshima, but at the urging of [[Saigo Takamori]], he returned to the Naval Academy before the start of combat.