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Judo is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport, Paralympic sport and Commonwealth Games sport. Judo is the most prominent form of Samurai throws and self-defense competed
Kyuzo Mifune (left) and Kanō Jigorō (right)
Takamasa Anai takes down his opponent during the Grand Slam Tokyo.
Jigoro Kano, founder of judo
Eisho-ji temple, Tokyo
Kanō Jigorō
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Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo. Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become
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…Games sport (since 1990). Judo is the most prominent form of Samurai throws and self-defense competed internationally. Judo was created in 1882 by Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎) as an eclectic martial art, distinguishing itself from its predecessors (primarily Tenjin Shinyo-ryu jujutsu and Kitō-ryū jujutsu) due to an…
Kanō as a child (right)
Kanō demonstrated jūjutsu for Ulysses S. Grant when the former U.S. president visited Japan in 1879.
Menkyo certificate issued by Iikubo to Kanō, October 1883. The term Jūdō (柔道), which had already been in use within Kitō ryū, appears in the first (rightmost) column: the art is identified as Nihonden Kitō Jūdō.