Also known as
Taro Miyake · Miyake Taruji · Taruji Miyake · Tarro Myaki
Description
Japanese jujutsu fighter, instructor, catch wrestler and author, a protégé of Fusen-ryu ground-fighting master Mataemon Tanabe and, with Yukio Tani, one of the pioneers of jujutsu in Britain. Trained under Tanabe, then Uyemura in Kyoto and Yataro Handa in Osaka, he worked as an instructor in Nara and Kobe before a brawl led to his dismissal and departure for London in 1904. There he famously defeated Yukio Tani in a challenge match, then joined forces with him to open the Japanese School of Jujutsu at 305 Oxford Street and co-author "The Game of Ju-Jitsu" (1906). From 1914 he lived in the United States (Seattle, Chicago, New York), teaching alongside Kodokan judoka Shozo Kuwashima, and continued competing into his 50s at Madison Square Garden.
Teachers (4)
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Tanabe Mataemonsports_martial_artsFusen-ryū ConfirmedConfirmedFusen-ryu jujutsu master Mataemon Tanabe named in the 1905 interview, EN Wikipedia and the BJS paper; his dojo's newaza expertise is well documented.The evidence establishes the claim: it is sufficient and consistent, and any conflicting evidence is resolved.
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3 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkFusen-ryu jujutsu master Mataemon Tanabe named in the 1905 interview, EN Wikipedia and the BJS paper; his dojo's newaza expertise is well documented.visibilityFirst-hand -
Uyemura
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2 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkUyemura's Kyoto school named in the 1905 interview and corroborated by the BJS paper; style and period not further specified.visibilityFirst-hand -
Handa Yatarōsports_martial_artsDaitō-ryū Jūjutsu ConfirmedConfirmedYataro Handa's Seibukan in Osaka named in the 1905 interview, EN Wikipedia and the BJS paper. The BJS paper confirms Tani, Miyake and Uyenishi were all Handa students.The evidence establishes the claim: it is sufficient and consistent, and any conflicting evidence is resolved.location_onSeibukan badge
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4 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkYataro Handa's Seibukan in Osaka named in the 1905 interview, EN Wikipedia and the BJS paper. The BJS paper confirms Tani, Miyake and Uyenishi were all Handa students.visibilityFirst-hand -
Onodera Sakatarosports_martial_artsKitō-ryū ProbableProbableOnodera Sakataro attested only in JA Wikipedia, which records study at his Meibukan in Okayama, a school teaching Kito-ryu, Takeuchi-ryu and Shinmyo-ryu; the precise style Miyake studied there is unclear, so Kito-ryu is used as the first-named tradition.The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
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1 source expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkOnodera Sakataro attested only in JA Wikipedia, which records study at his Meibukan in Okayama, a school teaching Kito-ryu, Takeuchi-ryu and Shinmyo-ryu; the precise style Miyake studied there is unclear, so Kito-ryu is used as the first-named tradition.
Lineage
- Fusen-ryū Tanabe MataemonTanabe Torajiro · 2 generations
Ranks (2)
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military_tech5 dan ConfirmedConfirmedThe 1905 interview records that Miyake was admitted to the fifth degree in jujutsu at age 22, rarely attained before 35; JA Wikipedia records Miyake as 5th dan (五段) of Handa Yataro's Daito-ryu jujutsu, which is the same school.The evidence establishes the claim: it is sufficient and consistent, and any conflicting evidence is resolved.Dan-Kyu System
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2 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkThe 1905 interview records that Miyake was admitted to the fifth degree in jujutsu at age 22, rarely attained before 35; JA Wikipedia records Miyake as 5th dan (五段) of Handa Yataro's Daito-ryu jujutsu, which is the same school. -
military_tech8 dan ProbableProbableJA Wikipedia cites Sasaki Shigetsu that Miyake held 8th dan from the Butokukai in Okayama; the same article cites Judo magazine (1918) that he held no Kodokan rank at the time of the 1917 Santel match. The quotation names the grade and the granting body but not the art, so jujutsu is inferred rather than quoted.The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.Dan-Kyu Systemgranted by Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society
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1 source expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkJA Wikipedia cites Sasaki Shigetsu that Miyake held 8th dan from the Butokukai in Okayama; the same article cites Judo magazine (1918) that he held no Kodokan rank at the time of the 1917 Santel match. The quotation names the grade and the granting body but not the art, so jujutsu is inferred rather than quoted.
Sources
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Tani, Yukio; Miyake, Taro. (1906). The Game of Ju-Jitsu: For the Use of
Schools and Collegesinfo
“Other establishments in London at that time were the Japanese School of Jujitsu, on Oxford Street, where the teachers were Tani, Miyake, Eida, and Kanaya [...] Roberts appeared in Sporting Life in 1906, along with Miyake, Hirano, Yamashita, and Omura, demonstrating at the headquarters of the Japanese School of Ju-jitsu on Oxford Street.”
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Plain text
Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Miyake Tarō. In Martialis: Martial Arts
Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M0A7YYEFMKPM42VNW79WTSWR - CC
BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M0A7YYEFMKPM42VNW79WTSWR, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Miyake Tarō}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database},
year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M0A7YYEFMKPM42VNW79WTSWR}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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