Eishoji Temple
Eishoji is a Jodo Buddhist temple in Higashi-Ueno, Tokyo, remembered as the site where Jigoro Kano opened the first Kodokan dojo in 1882.
Judo & the Kodokan
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a Brazilian grappling art and combat sport developed from Kodokan judo and jujutsu transmitted to Brazil in the early twentieth century.
Kyūzō Mifune
Kyūzō Mifune was a Kodokan 10th-dan judoka known for technical precision, teaching, kata development, and influential writing on judo.
Mataemon Tanabe
Mataemon Tanabe was a Fusen-ryū jujutsu teacher and judo hanshi whose groundwork became prominent in early inter-school contests.
Sakujirō Yokoyama
Sakujirō Yokoyama was an early Kodokan leader, teacher, curriculum contributor, and co-author of an influential judo manual.
Saigō Shirō
Saigō Shirō (1866–1922) was an early Kodokan judoka associated with Yama Arashi whose documented career became intertwined with the fictional hero Sanshirō Sugata.
Yōshin-ryū Jūjutsu
Yōshin-ryū is an influential family of early-Edo jujutsu lineages associated with flexible response, atemi, grappling, vital-point knowledge, and kappō.
Kitō-ryū Jūjutsu
Kitō-ryū is a classical Japanese jujutsu tradition known for throwing principles, armour-based kata, and its important influence on Jigoro Kano and Kodokan Judo.
Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū Jūjutsu
Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū is a late-Edo jujutsu tradition combining throws, joint controls, chokes, atemi, and revival methods, and was a major source studied by Jigoro Kano.
Fusen-ryū Jūjutsu
Fusen-ryū is a late-Edo Japanese jujutsu tradition associated with Takeda Motsugai and Mataemon Tanabe, whose ground-fighting successes became part of early Judo history.