Mitsuyo Maeda
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Otávio Maeda was a Japanese and Brazilian judōka, catch wrestler, and prizefighter who is considered one of the fathers of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. He was commonly known by the nickname Conde Koma.
Maeda c. 1910
Maeda in Cuba
Maeda and his family in Brazil
Maeda's first Brazilian students
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
Mitsuyo Maeda
…weighed 64 kilograms (141 lb; 10 st 1 lb), was confused with a delivery boy due to his country manners and demeanor. He was spotted by judo's founder Kano Jigoro, and assigned to Tsunejiro Tomita (4th dan at the time), the smallest of the teachers of the Kodokan's "Four Heavenly Kings" (Shitennō), to illustrate…
Portrait of late Mr. Kano
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.