Ohno Akitaro

大野 秋太郎
Japan

Also known as

Ono Akitaro · Akitaro Ohno

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 link info
“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: 355].”
— Brough, David. (2020). The Golden Square Dojo and its place in British Jujutsu historylink history info
“Garrud studied with the best instructors of the time including Taro Miyake, Mitsuyo Maeda, Gunji Koizumi and Akitaro Ohno.”
— (2026). William Garrud - Wikipedia. Wikipedia (English)link history info

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