Overview
- Ebina died of natural causes on December 24, 2025, at age 92.
- A private funeral was held with close relatives.
- The public farewell will take place on January 9, 2026, at 11 a.m. at Kan'eiji Rinno-den in Taitō Ward's Ueno Park.
- Born in 1933 in Tokyo's Honjo district, she came from a family that ran the fishing-rod shop Saochū.
- She married the first-generation Hayashiya Sanpei in 1952, had two sons and two daughters, and later spoke widely about losing six relatives in the March 1945 Tokyo air raids.