Uchida Ryà Âgorà  Shigeyoshi (written as Ryà Âgorà  Uchida in the west), (1837 - October 22, 1921), was a Japanese jojutsu practitioner, ranked menkyo in the Japanese martial art of Shintà  Musà Â-ryà «. He is the creator of the gendai budo Uchida Ryu Tanjojutsu, originally known as Sutteki jutsu or "stick method".
Uchida Ryà Âgorà  Shigeyoshi was born as Hiraoka Ryà Âgorà  in 1837 to father Hiraoka Nisaburo. He was the eldest of six children. After Ryà Âgorà Âs 14th birthday he was adopted into the Uchida family and took on the Uchida family name. He was adopted due to a lack of an heir to the Uchida family name.
Ryà Âgorà Âs biological father held a license to teach (Menkyo) in the Haruyoshi-branch of the "New Just" Muso-ryu tradition. From an early age Ryà Âgorà  showed an aptitude for martial arts and excelled in his studies. He trained in all of the arts a bushi (warrior) was expected to learn which included horsemanship, bowmanship, gunnery, swordsmanship, spear and a multitude of other weapons and skills. Among the arts he learned was Ono-ha Itto-ryu swordsmanship from Ikuoka Heitaro, the art of spear from a retainer of the Takeda family, Kyushin-ryu jujutsu from exponent named Ishikawa and Shinto Muso-ryu Jo from Hirano Kichizo Yoshinobu of the Haruyoshi-branch. Ryà Âgorà  is said to have received the scroll of complete transmission from each of the mentioned ryu.
Sometime after the Seinan war of 1877, Ryà Âgorà  moved to Tokyo and started teaching Shintà  Musà Â-ryà «, though in a smaller scale than his successor Shimizu Takaji. Two of his known students were Ryà Âhei Uchida (his son) and Nakayama Hakudo (the founder of Muso Shinden-ryu iaido and a master of kendo). Ryà Âgorà  created a set of tanjo kata based on the teachings of Shintà  Musà Â-ryà « and influenced by the walking sticks gentleman of the era carried, which he called "Sutekki" (the Japanese way to pronounce "stick"). After his death, the set of kata were named Uchida Ryu in his honor and are now practiced as one of the heiden bujutsu of Shintà  Musà Â-ryà «.