Jirōkichi Yamada

Japanese swordsman
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroJapanese swordsman
PlacesJapan
wasSwordsman
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth9 January 1863, Aizu, Japan
Death23 October 1930Japan, Japan (aged 67 years)
Star signCapricorn
The details

Biography

Jirokichi Yamada (山田 次朗吉, Yamada Jirokichi, January 9, 1863 – October 23, 1930) 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.

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