Citation

Wolf, Tony; Bartitsu Society. (2016). New Discoveries and Speculations re. the Submission Grappling of British Jiu-Jitsu. The Bartitsu Society

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• AuthorWolf, Tony
• EditorBartitsu Society

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Cited by (8)

sports_martial_arts

Daitō-ryū Jūjutsu

大東流柔術

Handa Yatarō

1847

sports_kabaddi

Seibukan

Dojo

sports_martial_arts

Sekiguchi Shinshin-ryū

関口新心流

person

Sekiguchi Ujitane

Tani Yukio

1881 - 1950-01-24

Uyenishi Sadakazu

1880-12-22 -

person

Yamamoto Seizō

Description

Research article by Bartitsu historian Tony Wolf (originally published on bartitsu.org, 14 Sep 2016) on the "mixed styles" submission grappling matches of London c.1900 and their roots. Identifies K. Tani (Kaneo Tani, son of Tenshin Shin'yo-ryu sensei Torao Tani) and S. Yamamoto as Bartitsu Club principals alongside Yukio Tani and Sadakazu Uyenishi; documents Yataro Handa's Osaka dojo (opened 1897, teaching a Sekiguchi-ryu-derived Daito-ryu) as the training ground of Uyenishi, Yamamoto and Taro Miyake; attributes the ne-waza innovations largely to Mataemon "Newaza" Tanabe - quoting Tanabe's own account of his development, the historian Minoru Yamada on Tanabe teaching both Yukio Tani and Taro Miyake at the Senbukan dojo in Kobe during the 1890s, and judo historian Shinichi Oimatsu that "Tani was a student of Tanabe Mataemon in Kobe" - notes the 1891 loss of Takizaburo Tobari to Tanabe, and records that most of E.W. Barton-Wright's martial-arts training was done in Kobe at the Shinden Fudo-ryu dojo of sensei Terajima Kuniichiro for about three years (c.1895-1898). Heavily relied upon by Brough et al. (2023, mas.166).

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