Kameyama Yoshiharu

was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. He was a student of the Hirata school of kokugaku.

Biography Kameyama Yoshiharu was born to a relatively affluent family in Nakatsugawa, a town under the jurisdiction of the Owari Domain. Little is known of Kameyama's early life. At some point, he developed an interest in classical studies and joined the burgeoning kokugaku movement.

Kameyama collaborated with fellow kokugaku scholar in the local publication of Hirata Atsutane's treatise on supernatural phenomena . The two carved the printing blocks by hand out of Japanese cherry wood blanks. In 1864, he joined the forces of the Tengutō under the leadership of Takeda Kōunsai and Yamakuni Hyōbu. Within the Tengutō, Kameyama was assigned to duties as a . After the Battle of Wada Pass, Kameyama was entrusted with the severed head of 17-year-old ,

Legacy In his 1929 epic historical novel Before the Dawn, Shimazaki Tōson records a poem presented by Kameyama to the family of his father Shimazaki Masaki, another kokugaku student and close friend of Ichioka Shigemasa: