Yamada Shinryukan was a semi-famous swordsman following the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

of the 17th century of Japan. Shinryukan was a noted teacher of the

kusarigama A is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a ''kama'' (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle or billhook) on a kusari-fundo – a type of metal chain (''kusari'') with a heavy iron weight (''fundo'') at the end. The ''kusarigama'' is said ...

(Which consists of a kama with a long chain with a weight at one end attached to it.) who killed many rival swordsmen. Shinryukan was finally defeated when he fought against the swordsman

Araki Mataemon was a Japanese samurai active in the early Edo period. Araki Mataemon was the founder of the koryū martial art Yagyū Shingan-ryū, known sometimes as Yagyū Shingan-ryū Taijutsu. Araki Matemon studied Yagyū Shinkage-ryū under Yagyū Mune ...

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''Secrets of the Samurai'' Yamada Shinryukan {{Japan-martialart-bio-stub