Description
Japanese jujutsuka who co-ran the Golden Square School of Jujutsu in
Piccadilly, London with Sadakazu Uyenishi (aka Raku) in the early 1900s;
Callan/Heffernan/Spenn (2019) record that from April 1905 Ohno travelled between
the USA, Cuba, Europe and the UK. The Garruds and Emily Diana Watts trained with
him at Golden Square alongside Uyenishi, Tani, Taro Miyake, Mitsuyo Maeda and
Gunji Koizumi. His identity with the Akitaro Ono of the "Four Kings of
Cuba" (Kodokan judo pioneers in the Americas) is likely but not
conclusively established in the consulted sources; no firm birth or death dates
have been found. The surname appears as both Ohno and Ono in contemporary and
secondary sources.
Sources
"By that time Roberts had joined the Golden Square School of Jujutsu, in
Piccadilly, which was run by Uyenishi Sadakazu (aka Raku) and Ohno Akitaro...
From April 1905, Ohno travelled between the USA, Cuba, Europe, and the UK."
— Callan, Mike; Heffernan, Conor; Spenn, Amanda.
(2018). Women's Jūjutsu and Judo in the Early Twentieth-Century: The Cases
of Phoebe Roberts, Edith Garrud, and Sarah Mayer
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"While training at the Golden Square Dojo the Garruds trained with the best
instructors of the time including Uyenishi, Tani, Taro Miyake, Mitsuyo Maeda,
and Akitaro Ohno [Garrud 1910]."
— Brough, David. (2020). The Golden Square Dojo and
its place in British Jujutsu historylinkinfo
"training also with Taro Miyake, Mitsuyo Maeda, Gunji Koizumi and Akitaro
Ohno at Golden Square"
— (2026). William Garrud - Wikipedia. Wikipedia
(English)linkinfo
Linked data
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