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Jirōkichi Yamada (山田 次朗吉 Yamada Jirōkichi January 9 1863 – October 23 1930) was the 15th 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.