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The Bulletin The Bulletin Number 6 August 2002 The Kano Society In This Issue Yukio Tani - Traditional Judo or Showmanship? • Yukio Tani There are many controversies in London at the invitation of Edward W. Judo not least of which is around Barton-Wright -- was wrong. Richard • Traditional Judo or showman- Bowen has established that the two the question of ‘What is Traditional ship? came to Britain in September 1900, Judo?’ This is the basis upon which • Self Protection and were followed not long after by the Kano Society was founded and S. Yamamoto. Yukio Tani was to stay • News – we have tried in previous issues to in England for the rest of his life, but expound some of the views about his brother and Yamamoto returned that . However if we consider the to Japan within a year, possibly due manner in which Judo was practiced to a disagreement on the use of by the early masters we find further jujutsu as "entertainment." The Bulletin - Editor’s comment controversial approaches and a Yukio Tani When Barton-Wright gave his lecture Photograph donated to Budokwai from LJS Welcome to the sixth edition of the plethora of sensei behaving and before the Japan Society of London 'Bulletin' - In this issue we continue practicing in variety of ways. in 1901 he took along Tani and Ya- to raise some Judo controversies in Bankier (the strongman Apollo). In the mamoto to demonstrate jujutsu the hope that readers will respond world of the music hall strongman and The early practitioners were a col- technique. The three men showed with their opinions and articles of their wrestler, with its challenges and ourful number of individuals—some the throws and locks of the art and own. This issue we look at Yukio Tani counter challenges that meant he had of their approaches would be then Yamamoto performed what and the perhaps unorthodox way in to be able to prove his art against any seems to have been pretty much a which he conducted his martial arts frowned on by ‘traditionalists’ - but opponent. But Tani had been ready to standard feat among many of those career. Whatever we think of his nevertheless they are part of our meet all comers from his first days in early jujutsu pioneers. He lay on his ‘showmanship’ approach—it cannot Judo tradition. England. Bankier had first met Tani at back with his hands tied and had a be denied that he has had a lasting Barton-Wright's school and tested him pole placed against his throat. Three effect on martial arts, was one of the on the mat. He later wrote, "As Tani Yuko Tani was such an individual. A men on either side of the pole held it finest newaza exponents ever seen stands only 5 foot in height, the task respected sensei and teacher at the down while two stood on Yamamoto and influenced many schools includ- before me seemed a particularly light Budokwai and also a music-hall and another two held his legs in ing the Gracie movement of Anaconda one. To my astonishment however, he showman. Some o fthe facts of his position. At a signal these ten men JuJitsu. had me at his mercy in less than two life are blurred as the man has pressed down to prevent Yamamoto minutes. How it was accomplished I moving, but within twenty seconds he Does traditional mean entrenched, drifted into the realms of martial did not know, but there I lay at the end had escaped the holds and was a old and perhaps an antique ‘has been’ arts mythology but an interesting of the bout, completely tied up with the free man. approach? We in the Kano Society account is given by Graham Noble Jap grinning from ear to ear and laugh- strongly disagree with that view. Al- in his article ‘the Odyssey of Yukio ingly asking me if I had had enough?" At the same lecture Barton-Wright though the founder members could be Tani’ - some extracts follow - gave a demonstration of "locking" described as senior citizens of the Bankier induced some of the top pro- on a volunteer from the audience, the Judo world we also have a thriving fessional wrestlers of the day to visit Yukio Tani was never too good with six-foot tall Lt. Douglas. "The lec- Junior division and welcome the new Barton-Wright's school. The group dates, and even the one date he did turer," the report read, "a much recruits from Scotland and wish them included Jack Carkeek (the self-styled quote -- September 26, 1899, smaller man than his opponent with a long and fruitful Judo career. "King of Wrestlers"), Antonio Pierri, when he and his brother arrived in the greatest of ease threw him down Regards— Diana Birch and the former English national and in a variety of practical perform- champion Tom Cannon, but none of ances illustrated the modes of ob- taining victory." Barton-Wright set up a school of arms with his Japa- “… Yukio Tani , nese instructors. It didn't attract a Budokwai member great deal of interest. Sadakazu Uyenishi's student William E. Garrud number 14, helped thought this was probably because of form the first large entrance and instruction fees. generation of But whatever the reason, the venture British judoka.” failed. At this, Tani split with Barton-Wright and then went into the music halls these big guns could be persuaded to under the management of William have a bout with Tani. A wrestler called Page 2 The Bulletin Yukio Tani (continued) Collins did go to the mat however and not only been greatly modified, but …. When Gunji Koizumi founded the We know little about Tani's early within a minute he was thrown heavily, changed to a sound respect." London judo club known as the training. Apparently his father and falling outside the mat and on the Budokwai in January 1918, Yukio grandfather were teachers of ju- stone floor. "Being a little stunned," … Tani had to live up to the hype, Tani was member number 14, and jutsu and he started training at a wrote Bankier, "he was unable to and he did it by being ready to meet much of his free time was spent at young age. So this must have been renew the contest." all comers from his very first days in the dojo. Therefore he helped form around 1890. England. That willingness to go on the first generation of British Shingo Ohgami told me that Tani the mat continued years later when judoka. he was instructing at the London judo club called the Budokwai. Shaw Desmond, a Budokwai veteran, re- membered Tani throwing "an all-in pro-wrestling champion" and then working him over on the ground with a series of locks and strangleholds. He also threw "an 18-stone [224- pound] Greco-Roman style wrestler who had come to study judo with Desmond. But Tani's reputation, and the reputation of jujutsu, was really made in the boisterous world of the music hall, where he worked for years. He had to be ready to meet all Tom Cannon comers, regardless of weight, so the Renowned wrestler refused to fight Tani worth of jujutsu was proved night There is a long list of wrestlers who after night, in town after town, Gunji Koizumi tried conclusions with Yukio Tani -- throughout Britain. According to Demonstrationg during a visit to Holland 1949 but, note, under jujutsu rules with Percy Longhurst, writing in 1905, which they were unfamiliar -- and they "The shrewd Scotsman Apollo, the Pupils received individual instruc- trained with Fusen-ryu groundwork all seem to have succumbed to a professional strongman, has taken tion, which meant that Tani would specialists Torajiro Tanabe and/or stranglehold or armlock. Yukio Tani in hand, carrying him from often be on the mat for four or five Matauemon Tanabe. This is sup- place to place until there is scarcely hours at a time. In person he was ported by information in Takao It's worth remembering that there was a town of considerable size south of friendly and cheerful, but on the mat Marushima's Maeda Itsuyo: Conte some skepticism about jujutsu when it Glasgow where Tani has not given a he was a strict taskmaster. One of Koma (1997), where it is said that originally appeared in England. Wil- demonstration of Jiu-Jitsu." his pupils, Marcus Kaye, wrote: Matauemon Tanabe was a friend of liam Bankier himself wrote that when … I don't know exactly when Tani "Throughout all his instruction there Tani's father. This is interesting "Tani and a fellow countryman" first joined with Bankier to begin his ran a steadfast devotion to the because the latter Tanabe, the made their appearance at the Tivoli years-long odyssey through the mu- realities of judo, with a correspond- fourth headmaster of the Fusen-ryu, Theatre, "the art was described as sic halls and theatres of Great Brit- ing avoidance of anything flashy, features in the early history of farcical, and the demonstrators ain, but by 1903 he was a well- unsound, or easy." Kodokan judo. knockabout comedians." Bankier put known figure to the public. Said Tani was a man who believed in the blame for this on the managers of Health and Strength in December learning by doing, and students the Japanese, so maybe that was a 1903: "Yukio Tani the clever Japa- remembered the effects of his cheap shot at Barton-Wright, but other nese wrestler, has lately been ap- throws, particularly his hane-goshi people also wrote about their early pearing at the Tivoli music hall, ..
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