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Yasuichi Matsumoto

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Japanese judoka, winner of the All-Japan Judo Championships in 1948 and Olympic coach for the All-Japan Judo Federation in the early 1970s. As coach and trainer at Tenri University he served as a Japanese national team coach and worked intensively with Anton Geesink, who trained at Tenri annually from 1956 pursuing the 1961 World and 1964 Olympic titles.

Ranks (1)

• sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō

  military_tech8 dan Probable

  Probable

  The USJF biography of Matsuo Takeda, who trained at Tenri University under Matsumoto in 1968, refers to him as 8th dan; exact grade date not established.

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

  Dan-Kyu System

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  The USJF biography of Matsuo Takeda, who trained at Tenri University under Matsumoto in 1968, refers to him as 8th dan; exact grade date not established.

  “A Japanese judoka, Yasuichi Matsumoto, was born on May 25, 1918 and died on March 6, 1996. He won the All-Japan Judo Championships in 1948.”

  — (1996). Yasuichi Matsumoto: Judo. USAdojo link history info

  “Geesink had previously trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara. Matsumoto put him up against Japanese judokas in training, in the hope that one of them would beat him, but in the knowledge that it was unlikely. Geesink would later say that this was his finishing school.”

  — Anton Geesink obituary, The Guardian, 6 September 2010link

Students (1)

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  Anton Geesink

  sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō Confirmed

  Confirmed

  The Guardian obituary and JudoInside record that Geesink trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara as preparation for the 1961 World and 1964 Olympic titles; Geesink called it his finishing school.

  The evidence establishes the claim: it is sufficient and consistent, and any conflicting evidence is resolved.

  location_onTenri University badge (1956–1964)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  3 sources expand_more

  fact_check

  The Guardian obituary and JudoInside record that Geesink trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara as preparation for the 1961 World and 1964 Olympic titles; Geesink called it his finishing school.

  “Hij werkte intensief samen met leermeester Yasuichi Matsumoto, de veelgeprezen trainer en Japanse bondscoach, met wie de judoka een innige band smeedde.”

  — Stouwdam, Henk. (2014). 9.500 gulden, sportschool en twee benzinepompenlink history info

  “Geesink had previously trained with Yasuichi Matsumoto at Tenri University in Nara. Matsumoto put him up against Japanese judokas in training, in the hope that one of them would beat him, but in the knowledge that it was unlikely. Geesink would later say that this was his finishing school.”

  — Anton Geesink obituary, The Guardian, 6 September 2010link

  “Geesink spent three months in Japan at Tenri University in Nara, where he worked uniquely on his Ne-Waza, or ground technique, which he viewed as the judo of the future.”

  — Geesink paved his way at the 1961 World Championships in Paris, JudoInsidelink

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