Kodokan Kumamoto Branch

Description

Branch dojo of the Kōdōkan that Kanō Jigorō set up in Kumamoto while he was headmaster of the Number Five Junior High School there; on his return to Tokyo in 1893 he made Arima Sumiomi its head.

Affiliations

• corporate_fareKodokan

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  “Sometime later, in an effort to promote further the spread of judo, I established a Kodokan branch dojo in Kumamoto.”

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

Locations (1)

• location_onKumamoto

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Founder

Instructors (1)

• person
  Arima Sumiomi

  Head instructor

  1893

  Probable

  Probable

  Kano's own account only.

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

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Kano's own account only.

  visibilityFirst-hand

  “I thereupon appointed Sumiomi Arima, who had been one of my political science and economics students at Gakushuin, as head of the Kumamoto branch of the Kodokan.”

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

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  “In the spring of 1893, I was recalled to Tokyo by the Minister of Education”

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

Tags

judo

Sources