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Keiko Fukuda Sensei from San Keiko Fukuda Francisco Solidarity of International JUDO Education The 7th Lecture Today, we have invited Keiko Fukuda Sensei from San Keiko Fukuda Francisco. We are also joined here by Katsuko Umezu Sensei and Eiko Saito Sensei. My name is Kaori Her motto: Yamaguchi, and I will serve as the moderator today. “Be strong, be gentle, be beautiful” In February 2009, I visited Fukuda Sensei in San Francisco to interview her for a magazine article on October 27, 2009 the history of women’s judo. During the interview, she Place: Kodokan told me so many wonderful stories that I thought, “This is too good to keep to myself.” So I asked her if Jointly organized by NPO-The Solidarity of she would share her stories with the many younger International JUDO Education and “Fukuda Keiko judo practitioners in Japan. It was a little tricky, but I Coming Home Organizing Committee” was able to persuade her to come to Japan. I understand that Fukuda Sensei must be tired but, Moderator: Kaori Yamaguchi (Kodokan female 6th with the help of Umezu Sensei and Saito Sensei, I dan) hope that today we will be able to hear as many of her Panelists: Katsuko Umezu (Kodokan female 8th dan), stories as possible. Six of Fukuda Sensei’s students Eiko Saito (Kodokan female 6th dan, United States from the United States are here today too. Judo Federation 7th dan) As all of you know, she is 96 years old. When she was talking to Toshiro Daigo Sensei the other day, Keiko Fukuda (Kodokan female 9th dan) Daigo Sensei said, “I’m 83 years old now.” In Born in 1913 in Tokyo. Her grandfather was response, she said, “Oh, you’re young,” (laughs) Hachinosuke Fukuda, a renowned jujitsu master who which made me think I must be just a baby. Fukuda taught the Japanese martial art to Jigoro Kano. Keiko Sensei has made a significant contribution to women’s Fukuda was invited by Kano to study judo and joined judo not only in Japan but also throughout the world the women’s section of the Kodokan when she was 22. over many years. All of us here have looked forward to In 1964, she demonstrated the “Ju-no-Kata” at the hearing about your valuable experiences today, Fukuda Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 1966, she visited the Sensei. United States to teach judo and, in 1967, established the San Francisco Women’s Judo Club. She traveled Fukuda: I’m very pleased to see so many people here not only all over the United Sates but also in Canada, today. Thank you very much for coming. Since I’m not Australia, France and other countries around the world, used talking in front of people, I’m feeling a little shy teaching judo. This earned her the name, the “Mother but I’m also pleased. of World Women’s Judo.” In 1990, she received the I know little about my grandfather. What I do know I Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette. heard from my grandmother. I thought I would talk In 2006, she was awarded the female 9th dan by the about him more than anything else today but, sitting in Kodokan, becoming the first woman in the world to front of such a big audience, I find myself trembling, receive such a high rank in judo. In the same year, she which is a chronic condition for me, and, honestly, I’m established the “Keiko Fukuda Judo Scholarship” with feeling a little confused. (laughs) the aim of teaching and supporting her successors. Hachinosuke Fukuda and Jigoro Kano Yamaguchi: Well, then, let me ask you some questions. Fukuda Sensei, as the audience knows, is the Yamaguchi: Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming granddaughter of Hachinosuke Fukuda, a jujitsu here today. master. As he was a teacher to Jigoro Kano, I think you had frequent opportunities to see Kano Sensei after -1- Solidarity of International JUDO Education you started practicing judo yourself, and have applied and he had a slender body. Because there were a lot what you learned from him. people who wanted to hear him talk, we sometimes asked him to come and talk at our house. Fukuda: Yes. My grandfather was Kano Sensei’s first So that’s how I joined the Kodokan. The teachers jujitsu teacher. He came to my grandfather’s dojo to there treated me somewhat better than other students practice jujitsu. When my grandfather passed away, because I was the granddaughter of Hachinosuke there was only my grandmother and my father, who Fukuda, which is something I still appreciate now. was small in stature. Therefore they asked Kano Sensei to take over the dojo. But it didn’t go as they’d Yamaguchi: I’ve heard that your grandmother treated hoped and they reluctantly closed the dojo. This is Kano Sensei like he was her apprentice. what I heard. Three years later, Kano Sensei opened his own dojo. Fukuda: Yes. I don’t know why, but she often called He had been taught jujitsu by three teachers, including him “Kano.” I thought, “How bold she is!” my grandfather. I have heard that, on the occasion of One of my grandfather’s apprentices was a fish 50th anniversary of his dojo, he paid his respects to the market “czar,” who was called “Enma no Kane-san.” spirits of his three teachers. According to my brother, Kano Sensei was once thrown by him. After that, he who attended the ceremony, Kano Sensei turned to my kept thinking, “One day I will throw Enma no grandfather’s altar first and talked to his spirit as if he Kane-san on the ground.” After reading a foreign book were still alive. My brother said, “The ceremony today he developed a new waza that looked like kata guruma was so sincere. I was overcome by emotion.” or “shoulder wheel,” which he used to finally throw A short time after the opening of his dojo, Kano Enma no Kane-san onto the ground. Because Kane-san Sensei visited our house, which is when I met him for was one of the strongest apprentices at my the first time. When I served him a cup of tea, he said, grandfather’s dojo, I have heard that Kano Sensei was “You look like a lot like Ryu-san.” I thought, “Do I very, very pleased. look that much like my father, Ryukichi?” Not long after he said to me, “My dojo has a women’s section. The early years of women’s judo Why don’t you come and see?” My mother later took Yamaguchi: What were your first impressions when me there and that was the first time I visited the you started judo? Kodokan. At my house, my grandmother was very strict about Fukuda: At first, I didn’t find it interesting. Only after I manners and I always had to maintain the formal seiza became friends with two women a year older than me posture when I sat on tatami. So I was very surprised did I gradually begin to enjoy practicing judo. Back to see women practicing ashi-waza and throwing their then there were two teachers for the women’s section: opponents at the Kodokan. I thought, “How bad one was Yoshitaka Handa and the other was a man mannered of them!” (laughs) After coming back home, who had opened a school in Hawaii. After 30 years in I told my mother and brother what I had seen at the Hawaii, the sensei returned to Japan, bringing one of Kodokan. They didn’t force me to join the Kodokan his apprentices from Hawaii with him. This apprentice but I decided to do so on my own. I was 22 years old. was one of my two best friends. The other was the daughter of the Emperor’s deputy head servant. Yamaguchi: What was your first impression of Kano Sensei? Yamaguchi: What was your best waza at that time? Fukuda: When he hung his coat at the entrance of our Fukuda: None of them! (laughs) It takes years to house, I happened to see inside one of the pockets and master them. saw some candy in there. (laughs) He was not very tall -2- The 7th Lecture Yamaguchi: Oh, sorry for asking such a stupid those days? question. You demonstrated the “Ju-no-Kata” at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo with Masako Noritomi. Fukuda: The level was very low. I once saw a teacher teaching judo to kindergarten kids and he threw one of Fukuda: I remember that I performed the the children with a kata guruma. I thought it was demonstration but have no memory of feeling nervous dangerous and at the same time I understood that their or excited. Following my demonstration, a sensei in knowledge of judo was very poor. I was later asked to the 8th rank performed a demonstration. I remember teach judo throughout the United States, so I did. I did very clearly that his legs were very thick and I thought, that for one year. with these thick legs, he must be very strong. Thinking Ten years later, an Australian student came to the in this way, I was not nervous at all. Kodokan and asked me to teach judo in Australia. So I It seems that practitioners these days do not take went there to teach, and on my way back to Japan I time to prepare for a demonstration but when I was visited the Philippines with an introduction from a young we took a month or sometimes two in Japanese teacher.
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