The Japanese kanji for Kashitaro (甲子太郎) can also be read as 'Kinetaro', but the former reading is correct because the first two kanji of his given name were taken from 'Kasshi' (written as '甲子', meaning the first year in the Japanese 60-year calendar cycle, which is a year of 'Kakurei' when the will of heaven is renewed and heaven's decree is revealed to the virtuous); further evidence that Kashitaro is the correct reading is the fact that his name was sometimes written as '樫太郎' (pronounced 'Kashitaro') in historical records of that time.
甲子太郎は｢きねたろう｣とも読まれるが、天意が革まって徳を備えた人に天命が下される「革令」の年とされる「甲子」にあやかったこと、同時代史料に「樫太郎」という表記も見られることから、「かしたろう」が正しい。