Ido Reizan

Ido Reizan (井土 霊山, 1859–1935) was a Japanese journalist, writer, poet, and liberal activist.

His father Wada Yoshishige (和田 祥重) was a samurai-turned-farmer who wrote a handbook of farming (農業要録) (published in Tokyo in 1889).

Ido attended and graduated from the Sendai Teaching College, which in the Meiji period became the Faculty of Education of Tohoku University.

Reizan was a prolific writer who wrote and edited 27 books, the subjects of which ranged from criminal law to Chinese poetry.

[1] His proposition to provide people in Manchuria and China with higher education predates the establishment of the National Foundation University by 33 years.