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Among the first female instructors of jujitsu in the Western world, and an innovator in physical culture. By 1903 she joined the Golden Square dojo of Uyenishi and Akitaro Ono in London, and by 1906 was teaching her own class of boys at the Prince's Skating Club. Her 1906 book The Fine Art of Jujitsu was the first English-language work to detail Kodokan judo kata (nage no kata). Her 1914 The Renaissance of the Greek Ideal presented an original system of calisthenics inspired by Greek statuary, and she spent four decades on the international lecture circuit.

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  Uyenishi Sadakazu

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  By 1903 Watts joined the Golden Square dojo run by Sadakazu Uyenishi and Akitaro Ono in Piccadilly; both Wikipedia and Brough (2020) state she joined in 1903.

  sports_kabaddiSchool of Japanese Self Defence badge (1903-1906)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  By 1903 Watts joined the Golden Square dojo run by Sadakazu Uyenishi and Akitaro Ono in Piccadilly; both Wikipedia and Brough (2020) state she joined in 1903.

  assessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  "By 1903 Watts had developed a strong interest in jujitsu and joined the Golden Square dojo of Sadakazu Uyenishi and Akitaro Ono."

  — Wikipedia contributors. (2025). Emily Diana Watts - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)linkinfo

  "Emily Diana Watts had also joined the Golden Square dojo in 1903 and in 1906 wrote The Fine Art of Jujitsu."

  — Brough, David. (2020). The Golden Square Dojo and its place in British Jujutsu historylinkinfo

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