Terasaka Yakuro Masatsune
Japanese priest
About Terasaka Yakuro Masatsune
Lived 1567 – 1594 (aged 26–27). Terasaka Yakuro Masatsune was a martial artist.
Akasaka Yakuro Masatsune (赤坂 弥九郎 政雅, 1567–1594) was a direct student of Kaneko Shinkuro Morisada, the second headmaster of the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu. Akasaka is better known by his Buddhist dharma name- Zenkitsu (善吉, also read Zenkichi). He was the chief priest at the Buddhist temple Tenneiji of the Soto Zen School, located not far from Kuramadera near Kyoto. His best student was a samurai from the Satsuma domain, Togo Shigekata, whom he taught between 1588-1589.
Zenkitsu died in c. 1594.
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Japanese priest (1567–1594)
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Terasaka Yakuro Masatsune was born in 1567.
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