about Kano Jigoro Jujutsu experience




This is the some informations about jigoro Kano 's jujutsu  experience :

In 1877 Jigoro Kano, the founder of Kodokan Judo, became a pupil of Tenjin Shinyo-ryu master Hachinosuke Fukuda.

In 1879, with the death of Fukuda, he completed his study of Tenjin Shinyo-ryu under the tutelage of the Iso Masatomo (grandson of the styles founder). 


Jigoro kano 's Tenjin Shinyo maki (Ten-Chi-Jin no maki)  (from kodokan collection)


In 1881, Kanō began training in Kitō-ryū with Iikubo Tsunetoshi (Kōnen). Iikubo was expert in kata and throwing, and fond of randori.
Kanō applied himself thoroughly to learning Kitō-ryū, believing Iikubo's throwing techniques in particular to be better than in the schools he had previously studied. It is Iikubo who issued Kanō's Kito ryu  rank and teaching credential, namely a certificate of Menkyo (not Menkyo kaiden) in Nihonden Kitō Jūdō, dated October 1883.

Note : In 1882 kano established Kodokan Judo.

Translation :



This certificate  was awarded from Ikubo Hisashitoshi to Jigoro Kano in "Nihon den Kito ryu  judō  日本傳 起倒流 柔道" (1883). So the term judō had already been used in Kitō-ryū, which Kano learned.

Source: 講道館監修, Kodokan (ed.) - The Japanese book "嘉納治五郎大系・第12巻" (Kano Jigoro Taikei (Jigoro Kano's Writings), vol. 12, Tokyo: Honnotomosha)

After that, Kano learned Kito ryu  with another teacher :  Takenaka Tetsunotsuke in Takenaka-ha Kito ryu and possibly received Menkyo Kaiden. (not verified information).

This scroll below his the Hontai no Maki that Kano issued to Hoshina Shiro (later Shiro Saigo ) in 1885 (Shiro Saigo was very talented martial artist because he got that menkyo by kano after only a very short time because he enter Kodokan in 1882).



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