Actor Katori Shingo played Kondo Isami in the 2004 Shinsengumi Taiga Drama. Actor Katori Shingo played Kondo Isami in the 2004 Shinsengumi Taiga Drama. Hirai Shihan of the Hatsuunkan Dojo demonstrates Tennen Rishin Ryu kenjutsu.
Kondo Isami was the fourth inheritor of Tennen Rishin Ryu and the commander of the infamous Shinsengumi, a private militia commissioned to bring order to Kyoto during the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.