was the 15th and last official headmaster or sà Âke of Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryà «, a (koryà «) of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship (kenjutsu). He was a student of the 14th sà Âke, Sakakibara Kenkichi (æ¦Âå éµåÂÂ).
In the early twentieth century (1927), he published a book documenting all five classical kata of this koryà « that originates from the sixteenth century.