Honda Masujirō

Description

Japanese scholar of English (1866–1925), translator and diplomat; a student of Kanō Jigorō from October 1883 who trained with the judo students of the Kanō Juku, helped Kanō teach judo, and with others managed the Kanō Juku and the Kōdōkan in Kanō's absence.

Teachers (1)

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  Kanō Jigorō

  sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō Probable

  Probable

  Kano's own account only.

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

  (1883)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Kano's own account only.

  visibilityFirst-hand

  “In October of the same year the well-known scholar of English Literature, Masujiro Honda, became a student of mine.”

  — Brian N. Watson. (2008). Judo Memoirs of Jigoro Kanoinfo

  visibilityFirst-hand

  “Although a number of Kano Juku students including Itsuro Munakata, Masujiro Honda, Takejiro Yuasa, Katsukazu Tamura, Katsutaro Ota, Tokusaburo Kano and Hidetsuke Oshima, were not specializing in judo, nevertheless, they trained together with, and just as strenuously, as my judo trainees.”

  — Brian N. Watson. (2008). Judo Memoirs of Jigoro Kanoinfo

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