Jirokichi Yamada Explained

Jirokichi Yamada
Native Name:山田 次朗吉
Native Name Lang:jp
Nationality:Japanese
Birth Date:January 9, 1863
Birth Place:Aizu, Fukushima, Japan
Death Date:October 23, 1930
Death Place:Japan
Style:Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū
Trainer:Sakakibara Kenkichi (榊原 鍵吉)
Students:Kawashima Takashi (川島 堯), Ōmori Sōgen (大森 曹玄)

was the 15th and last official headmaster or sōke of Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū, a (koryū) of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship (kenjutsu). He was a student of the 14th sōke, Sakakibara Kenkichi (榊原 鍵吉).

In the early twentieth century (1927), he published a book documenting all five classical kata of this koryū that originates from the sixteenth century.[1]

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  1. Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū 鹿島神傳直心影流 by Yamada Jirokichi. Suishinsha, hardcover, 1927.