Marume Nagayoshi was a retainer of the Sagara Clan in the Sengoku period and a swordsman in the early Edo period. He was considered one of the best four pupils of Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, and went on to found the Taisharyū school. He was sometimes known as Kurandonosuke and also as Ishimi Mamoru, but was best known as Marume Nagayoshi, which he was called in kōdan. His original name was Fujiwara, and his art name was Tessai. In his later years he shaved his head and went by the name of Ishimi Nyūdō Tessai.