Description

Japanese Kodokan judo instructor, 8th dan in 1961, who gave Anton Geesink private lessons at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police (Keishicho) dojo during Geesink's training visit in early 1961. Romanized by Geesink as 'Sampei Asami'.

Ranks (1)

• sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō

  military_tech8 dan Probable

  Probable

  Geesink calls Asami an 8th dan in his own 1961 article; corroborated by the contemporary Kodokan Review (Asami Sempei), but the exact grade and date rest on a single primary source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  Dan-Kyu System (1961)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Geesink calls Asami an 8th dan in his own 1961 article; corroborated by the contemporary Kodokan Review (Asami Sempei), but the exact grade and date rest on a single primary source.

  “Want in de politiedojo krijg ik les van Sampei Asami, een achste dan en één van de beste leraren die er is.”

  — Utrecht 60 jaar terug: Anton Geesink traint in Tokiolink history info

Students (1)

• person
  Anton Geesink

  sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō Probable

  Probable

  Geesink's own 1961 Utrecht newspaper article quotes him receiving lessons at the police dojo from Sampei Asami, an 8th dan. Kodokan Review corroborates Asami Sempei as a Kodokan instructor of that era.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  Private lesson location_onTokyo Metropolitan Police Department badge (1961)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Geesink's own 1961 Utrecht newspaper article quotes him receiving lessons at the police dojo from Sampei Asami, an 8th dan. Kodokan Review corroborates Asami Sempei as a Kodokan instructor of that era.

  “Want in de politiedojo krijg ik les van Sampei Asami, een achste dan en één van de beste leraren die er is.”

  — Utrecht 60 jaar terug: Anton Geesink traint in Tokiolink history info

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