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Names
| type | kanji | romaji | reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| myoji | Kajikawa | ||
| tsusho | Yoshimasa |
Kajikawa Yoshimasa (梶川義正) was one of the three swordsmen first hired into the Keishichō gekken sewakari (撃剣世話掛) in 1879, with Ueda Umanosuke and Henmi Sōsuke. His school was Ono-ha Ittō-ryū (小野派一刀流) — not the Kyōshin Meichi-ryū of the two men he was recruited alongside — a point worth holding, since the first trio is often taken as a single Shigakukan draft.1
Little of his life beyond the police service is recovered. He was treated at the Keishichō as being of special rank with Ueda and Henmi, and — being markedly the eldest of the group — served as the senior man who presided over and adjudicated matches. He was one of the five sewakari (with Ueda, Henmi, Tokunō Sekishirō (opens in a new tab), and Shingai Tadaatsu) who framed the Keishi-ryū wooden-sword forms (Japanese Wikipedia, n.d.; Japanese Wikipedia, n.d.).
His birth and death dates, his domain of origin, and how an Ono-ha Ittō-ryū man came to be recruited alongside the Shigakukan figures are not documented.
End Notes
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The Ono-ha Ittō-ryū attribution is from Kajikawa’s own biographical article; the school-mixing of the 1879 trio (Ono-ha Ittō-ryū, Kyōshin Meichi-ryū, and — through Henmi — Tatsumi-ryū) is itself the point the composite Keishi-ryū was built to resolve. (Japanese Wikipedia, n.d.) ↩
