Jirokichi Yamada


Jirokichi Yamada was the 15th and last official headmaster or sōke of Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū, a of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship. He was a student of the 14th sōke, Sakakibara Kenkichi.
In the early twentieth century, he published a book documenting all five classical kata of this koryū that originates from the sixteenth century.