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Over the subsequent small indefinite amount of day's I will composition an article of the yore of Pre-WWII Japanese Jujitsu/Judo. I wasn't convinced where on earth to start, but here I am so let's get started.

I'm going to activation with H. Irving Hancock, who in the advance 1900's wrote respective books on the what went before of Japanese geographical breaking in & Jujitsu. I will inception next to his wedding album Japanese Physical Training transcribed in 1903.

"Subsequently he studied in Nagasaki, below Inouye San, pedagogue of Jiu-jitsu in the force section of that city".

This was the oldest example I detected of Inouye. Now if we face at Hancock's new passage Jiu-jitsu Combat Tricks written a period of time following in 1904:

"Exponents of the Tenjin School of jiu-jitsu have industrialized in all its come-at-able ne plus ultra a method of holdfast the boxer's swing that cannot be surpassed for sleekness of execution, effectiveness and fastness. It is a exploit that applies solitary to fastener a left slap by the battler."

Before leaving this book, the rationale for the preceding two quotes are:

1.) The mentioning of Inouye, the jiujitsu pedagogue of the Nagasaki personnel dept.

2.) The introduce of the net "Tenjin/Tenshin"

Later you will see wherever I'm going next to this.

Another inverted comma that is outstandingly newsworthy.

"In Japan the sated course of study in jiu-jitsu requires iv old age time".

That seems deeply reasonable, as I have publication that it takes active 15 old age to have a Menkyo Kaiden in Tenjin Shinyo Ryu today. The interrogation is, why so long? I don't have 15 years to commit to one art.

At this barb I would resembling to distribute up other old sticker album on jiu-jitsu, "THE YABE SCHOOL OF JIU JITSU" typewritten in 1904 by Yae Kichi Yabe. In Yabe's wedding album he mentions that the set-up is based on that of "Tenshin". Also in this volume is the leg "Vital Touches" used to draw Atemi or "Ate"!

Professor John J. O'Brien states that he acceptable his credentials in Jiu Jitsu in 1905 from the Governor of Nagasaki. O'Brien worn-out ten years as Inspector of Police in Nagasaki. He was liable for introducing Presiedent Teddy Roosevelt to Jiu Jitsu as cured as instructing Colonel A.J. Drexel Biddle.

Next we rearrange on to Col. Risher W. Thornberry. Thornberry wrote several books on martial art from 1905 to 1933. In his most basic jiujitsu folder documented in 1905, the premiere leaf is outstandingly gripping. It shows a visualize of Prof. Kishoku Inouye, "Instructor to the Nagasaki Police". At the top of the folio it reads, "Jiu-jitsu - As instructed by Prof. Inouye to done 2,000 Officers and Soldiers now at the frontmost flash." Reference to the Russo/Japanese war.

This passage was scrivened individual a yr or two after Hancock's wording. They some approach Inouye & Tenshin. A settled linkage is start to come together.

An fascinating reference from Thornberry's book,

"Jiu-jitsu has a weapon in the descriptor of "atemi, or important touches", which may be administered with the thumb, the clinched hand, the elbows, the tows, the slither of the hand, or even near the go before." Again, the point for mentioning this quotation mark is the use of the language unit "Vital touches".

Research shows that Thornberry actively instructed jiu-jitsu. One of Thornberry's students was Samuel R. Linck. Linck went on to make a tale in 1943 called "COMBAT JIU JITSU". An superior newspaper. Linck studied lower than Thornberry in Los Angeles for a figure of eld. Linck received a "Master Diploma" from Thornberry in "Tenshin Ryu" dated May 6th, 1935.

In Linck's baby book he offers a short-lived yesteryear of jiu-jitsu.

"These forms of the art were keenly noncommittal and lone educated to the warrior or mortal class, the assortment now prearranged as the Black Dragon Society".

Linck educated a man by the heading George Tate. Linck and Tate instructed a jiu-jitsu standing in Los Angeles. Later on, Tate succeeded Linck as teacher and persistent to edify and prepare in Jiu-jitsu. Tate went on to go the jiu-jitsu pedagogue for the Los Angeles police department and following conducted round table at the L.A. Judo Club.