As he achieved excellent academic records at the domain school, Michiyo was requested by Goro EBATA, a scholar of Chinese classics and a lecturer of the domain school, to join the Ebata family, and was adopted by Ebata at the age of 14.
藩校で優れた成績を修めたため、14歳の時に藩校の教授であった漢学者・那珂梧楼から乞われて江帾家の養子に入る。