Tsukahara Bokuden

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Tsukahara Bokuden
Statue of Tsukahara Bokuden (Kashima City, Ibaraki Prefecture)
Born	Tsukahara Shin'emon Takamoto c. 1489, first year of Entoku Hitachi Province
Died	11 February 1571(1571-02-11) (aged 81–82), Genki (era) Kashima (now Kashima City), Japan
Native name	塚原 卜伝
Other names	Yoshikawa Asako (infant name) → Tsukahara Takami (塚原高幹?) → Buden (number)
Residence	Japan
Style	Kashima style of kenjutsu
Children	Mikishige (幹重) son
Notable students	Ashikaga Yoshiteru; Kitabatake Tomonori; Hosokawa Fujitaka; Imagawa Ujizane; Kamiizumi Nobutsuna; Yamamoto Kansuke and more.
Japanese name
Kanji	塚原 卜伝
Hiragana	つかはら ぼくでん
Transcriptions Romanization Tsukahara Bokuden

Tsukahara Bokuden (塚原 卜伝, 1489 – March 6, 1571) was a famous swordsman of the early Sengoku period. He was described as a kensei (sword saint). He was the founder of a new Kashima style of kenjutsu, and served as an instructor of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Ise provincial governor daimyō Kitabatake Tomonori.^[1]