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]