Yoshitaka Igasaki (伊賀崎 好天,Igasaki Yoshitaka) is the Last Ninja (ラストニンジャ,Rasuto Ninja) and the father of Tsumuji Igasaki. He was the Igasaki who originally fought the revived Gengetsu Kibaoni.
Yoshitaka making himself known that he's alive to his grandchildren.
As the Last Ninja, Yoshitaka fought against the revived form of Gengetsu Kibaoni, who had returned as a Yokai following his fall and defeat in the Sengoku era. During the climax of their fight, Yoshitaka used 47 Sealing Shuriken and the End Shuriken to seal Gengetsu Kibaoni and his army, but lost his life in doing so. However, thanks to the power of the End Shuriken, he was able to maintain a human form and stay alive.
In the present day, it was believed that Yoshitaka had died, but in reality, he was just hiding, returning to assist his grandchildren in their fight against Yokai Kamaitachi and the rest of the Kibaoni forces. To do so, he gives the Ninningers their OtomoNin Shuriken to fight fairly with the enlarged Yokai. He then fully appears to the Ninningers after Takaharu talked about assuming his mantle, revealing to them that he was still alive and well, and fairly disgruntled about the assumption of his passing.
As a result of his age, Yoshitaka cannot fight the Kibaoni Army Corps like he used to, and has to wait for his grandchildren to surpass him as a ninja to become the next Last Ninja.
Later on, it would be revealed that he knows of the existence of the End Shuriken which supposedly is able to fully eliminate Gengetsu Kibaoni. But he never used it and choose to seal Kibaoni instead, under unknown reasons. TV STORY-Shinobi 6: Tengu's Spiriting Away
When his son calls in the previous two redNinjas to teach the Ninningers how to be true ninja, Yoshitaka meets with the original Red hero, Akarenger. Uniting with the red ninja teachers after the Ninningers prove their potential, Yoshitaka asks for patience as it will take time for his grandchildren to grow stronger. Akarenger understands this, noting that he has watched over many Super Sentai in the same way. TV STORY-Shinobi 7: Spring Ninja Festival!
He was found and attacked later on by Kinji Takigawa, an American whom he revealed to have met during his travels who begged to be his pupil, but was rejected on the grounds that he lacked Nintality. However his insistence caused Yoshitaka to relent, telling Takigawa that he would take him as an apprentice, but only if the latter could defeat him in battle, in the hopes that Takigawa would give up upon such an impossible task. Instead, Takigawa took Yoshitaka's words to heart and trained by mimicking his skills to heighten his Nintality, as well creating his own StarNinger equipment from referencing instructions from his autobiography "I am The LAST NINJA", finally coming to Japan to defeat him. Yoshitaka however, presents him a new challenge: defeat his grandchildren, and the apprenticeship would be his. TV STORY-Shinobi 10: Yee-haw! The Gold StarNinger
Following the Ninningers' defeat of the first of Kyuemon's Izayoi ninjas, impressing a young boy enough to wish to be Takaharu's student, Yoshitaka scoffed at the idea of Takaharu teaching others to be ninja for a long while, confessing that the boy reminded him of when Kyuemon asked to become his own student, while he still had pure intentions before becoming a tool of evil and the Ninningers' enemy. Apologizing to his grandchildren for what he saw as his failure as a ninja tutor, Yoshitaka confided in Takaharu and Fuka that the source of their power lay within the Igasaki's Nintality, specifically their father, revealing that the cause of the disappearance of his son's Nintality was in fact due to it being stolen by Kyuemon. TV STORY-Shinobi 28: Race to It! The Kibaoni Ninja Squad
When Nagi expresses a desire to know more about being the Last Ninja, Yoshitaka decides to let him feel what its like to be the Last Ninja. To that end, he sends Nagi and the others inside an RPG game based around being the Last Ninja, setting Nagi as the protagonist of the story. TV STORY-Shinobi 37: Shuriken Legend ~The Road to Last Ninja~
Following the return of Gengetsu Kibaoni, Yoshitaka takes Takaharu aside to train him for the final fight against the general. While Takaharu took it as any other training, Yoshitaka keeps telling his grandson that he has to kill him if he wants to be the Last Ninja. When Takaharu tells him that he, nor the others, will never kill their mentor, Yoshitaka reveals the catch for becoming the Last Ninja: killing the previous Last Ninja so the new one can fully absorb their Nintality. TV STORY-Shinobi 44: The Final Battle! The Ordeals of the Last Ninja
Yoshitaka dissapearing after the Ultimate Nin Shuriken was taken from him.
While trying to fight off Gengetsu Kibaoni by himself, he found he was no match for the revived ruler by himself. Luckily for him, he was join by the rest of his family to fight together. But even with their combine might, they were still no match for his power. In his weakened state, he was finally struck down by his former pupil, Kyuemon. The attack began to make his body fade, and revealed to everyone the truth: Yoshitaka was dead all this time. In actuality, he died while sealing away Gengetsu Kibaoni the first time 444 years ago, but it was the power of the End Shuriken that was keeping him from passing away. Now that Kyuemon took the End Shuriken away, there was nothing keeping the Last Ninja alive. Yoshitaka apologized to his grandchildren for keeping this a secret before fading away and having his Nintality absorbed by Kyuemon. Later on, though, his grandchildren found a recorded message he made in case something like this would happen, as a way to tell them that they have all found a way to surpass him as the Last Ninja, and to do what he could never do. TV STORY-Shinobi 44: The Final Battle! The Ordeals of the Last NinjaTV STORY-Shinobi 45: Three Generations of Fathers and Sons! All Ninjas GatheredTV STORY-Shinobi 46: The Last Shuriken Appears!
Ninjutsu Mastery: As the Last Ninja, he is a master of ninjutsu and Shuriken Ninpo, and has used it with his comrades to fight Gengetsu Kibaoni.
Demon Sealing: By using the Sealing Shuriken, he was able to seal a very powerful youkai like Gengetsu Kibaoni.
Cloning: He is able to create countless versions of himself, effectively distracting even other ninjas.
Whirlwind Generation: He was able to create a whirlwind with his bare hands to power up a Flame Technique of Goton Nin Shuriken.
Kanashibari no Jutsu (金縛りの術,Kanashibari no Jutsu lit. "Binding Technique"): By outstretching his hand to the target, he can bind their movements, causing the target's arms to bind their body.
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Peak Human Condition: Even at his current age, he is still able to perform great feats, like jumping from a very high tower and landing safely if shaky. However, as a result of his age, he cannot fight the Kibaoni forces.
Linguistic Skills: For some peculiar reason, Yoshitaka peppers his speech now and then with Italian. According to Takaharu, Yoshitaka can communicate with aliens 30 times, implying he knows their languages.
Disguise: As a ninja master, he is skilled in makeup and disguise.
Culinary skills: He seems to be very good at making oden and ramen.
Based on the surnames of Yoshitaka's grandchildren it can be inferred that he has three daughters, Harukaze Kato and two who have so far not been seen nor named.
Unlike the other Ninningers, Yoshitaka does not use a transformation device of any sort to transform into AkaNinger.
Also unlike the rest of Ninningers, his sash does not possess the Ninninger symbol/logo, instead it has "nintality" written in a combination of kanji and katakana.
Yoshitaka Elder Shuriken
The Ninningers perfect book revealed a nin shuriken for Yoshitaka labeled "Elder".
This article is about a mentor and ranger in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.
TV STORY-Shinobi 1: We're Ninja! As an Igasaki, Yoshitaka trained to become a ninja and, when the time came, he defeated his father, the Former Last Ninja, in battle. As per the Igasaki Clan tradition, the young Yoshitaka slayed his father at the latter's request and became the new Last Ninja having inherited his father's Nintality upon his death. 
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