Issue No. 82 July 1965 The Budokwai "G.K. HOUSE," 4 GILSTON ROAD, SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON, 5.\\'.10. FRObisher 1000. M~llaKl!T: M. LISTER, TecJmkal Director: K. WATANABE (5th dan) Budokwm Technical PmleJ; K. WATANABE (5th dan) A. J. SWEENEY (4th dan), It BOWEN (4th dan), S. R. HOARE (4th dan), A.. J. REAY (3rd dan), D. BURR (3rd dan), L. RALPH (lst dan). Instructors: C. S. PALMER (5th dall), R. BOWEN (4th dan), A. J. REA\ (3rd dan). S. R. HOARE (4th dan) ,A. J. SWEENEY (4th dan), J. CORNISH (4th dan), D. BURR (3rd dan). Executive Committee; H. M. HODKINSON (Chairman} D. HUNT E. FLINDALL R. J. BLACKMORE (HQ11 Treasurer) L. DO~-FMAN \ W. STOCKHAM (H01L Scaetary) F. L. WARD H. N, PIPER HOllorary Officers; Presidellt: M. M. KAYE, O.B.E. (3rd dan) Pro1ll0tUnl Officer: R. J. BLACKMORJo: Editorial Board: J. H. DRESLER H. P. LISTER F. L. WARD DOJo Hours LADIES: Instructors: C. S. PALMER (5th dan), J. CORl"ISH (4th dan) l Tuesday, 7 - 9 p.m. Thursday, 7 - 9 p.m. Saturday, 6.30 ~ 8.30 p.m. " ':.J' JUNIORS, ,>" Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 - 7 p.m. Saturday, 10.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Beginners: Thursday, 5.30 - 6.30 p.m. MEN: Monday to Friday, 6.30 - 9 p.m. Saturday, 3.30 - 6 p.m. INSTRUcrORS ON DUTY Monday: K. WATANAIIE (5th dan) A. J. SWEENEY (4th dan) (2nd kyu and above only) \ Tuesday: D. BURR, 3rd dan (3rd k)'u and below ":loly). Wednesday: K. WATANABE (5th dan) A. J. REAY (3rd d:ll1) Thursday: K. WATANABE (5th dan) S. R. HOARE (4th dan) Friday: K. WATANABE (5th dan) D. BURR (3rd dan) Saturday: K. WATANABE (5th dan) Sunday: K. WATANABE (5th dan) A. J. SWEENE\' (4th dan) (Budokwai teams tr~lining) Beginners' Courses: for men, ladies and boys; full details on request. " Special Class - 5th kyu and below: Saturday, 2.30- 3.30 p.m. Instructor: R. BOWEN (4th dan) PrivaJe Clast [l/siff/c/iO/I: By arrangement (R. DOWEN, S. HOARE and A. J. REAY). F1p Contents Issue No. 82 Tributes to Gunji Koizumi, 8th dan Newaza K. Watanabe 18 Announcements 19 The New President T. P. Leggett 20 Talking Points: I, Weight categories 22 Tributes 2. Administration 24 to More about Tonbridge 25 European Judo Championships 26 Gunji Koizumi All Japan Tnter-University Championships 8th dan M. Hopkinson 28 Schoolboys' Judo Tony Reay 30 8th July 188s - ISth April 1965 Cover photograph by C. Nosh was taken on 13 April, 1965. Photograph on p.l? by C. Nash. Those on pages 3, 6 and 9 were kindly loaned by Miss Katherine White-Cooper. Published quarterly by The Budokwai Price 2/6 Copyright r~served. Reproduction in whole or part forbidden u;/hout permissum in writing from The Budokwai. '" ~ ""'l - ~. "l >?'" ~ '"~Q'" ~ ~~ 0., ...:::":'(';:j- 'c;;L...... "" •-= ~:::". ~ "'" ~ iSC1Cl ~C1Cl ~ ""<>-'" .... <:;.- .... 1t"'" ~ -::;. ~~-"- "" :i~no""" ::: ~ ~ c:g " ....'IJ "....~ • Last October I sent to Mr. Koizullii the book The Biography of Dame Enid Russell-Smith, figoro Kano, which had just been published. He wrote back to me: "Thank you very much for your kind present of the biography. It D.H.E., M.A., first edlior oj the Bulletin and a made me feel as if I were meeting him again. I missed meals and sleep reading through it. It again impressed me with the importance of Judo training as a method of educating human beings, and an trustee oj the Budokw01; was the first woman to reach increased resolve to further the elevation of human life yet more. Time brings great changes, and the individual is mortal. But in the path 3rd dan outSide Japan of faith there is no life or death." He died on April IS. His last letter to me was dated April 9, I was fortunate enough to have G.K. as a personal friend for but the London postmark was April IS. I was at the time in America, nearly ~hirty years and to work closely with him during the eleven and read his last letter on April 29 when I came back. I was deeply years I was Editor of the Bulletin. The opportui1it:eS I then had to moved by his calm farewell: enjoy the play of his delightful personality and re'i-narkable mind were "Dear Mr. Kmw, one of the privileges of editorship. Of no-one I have known could it more truly be said that age could not wither nor custom stale his What remai1H of my life is like a dead tree. I find it "infinite variety". The range of his interests wa:; extraordinary. Conver­ oppressive to await dismissal by Heaven, so I am taki1lg the sation might pass from the nature of self ("What is 'I'?") to the ste.p myself and say good-bye. I am most grateful for your technique of applying lacquel" to wood and on each topic he would friendship a:nJ guidance in the past. have something profound, interesting or witty to say. His qualities of mind were as varied as his interests. Remembering G.K., onc Wishing you success in your mission, and happiness to thinks first of courage, the courage which, having brought hin. to rhis yourself mid your family. country as a young man, led him to teach himself, "out of a book" Sincerely yours, as he once remarked, the art of lacquering, on which he became Con­ sultant to the Victoria and Albert Museum, nnd, with Yukio T:mi, to est~.blish lIS a respected form of mental and physical education And on the other sid~ of the letter, in bold characters, "In the what was then regarded primarily as a spectacular musIc hall "turn". path of faith there is no life or death." called Judo. It was courage which enabled Lim to surmount the grave I still have a vivid picture of him before my mind, in his black financil,l difficulties which threatened the existence of the B\ldokwai clothes with the black spectacles, with the quiet distinction l)f a true during the war and its aftermath, and which inspired him to "think philosopher. big" in his plans for the developmellt of Judo in Britain, in Europe and in the world, so hig, in fact, that we arc still filling in the outline I mourn the passing of Mr. Koizumi, father of Judo in Great of his vision. Britain and a great contributor to the development ot Kadokan Judo. May he rest in peace I Anyone who had much to do with G.K. was struck by his mentnl stature. He had tln active, enquiring mind which he devoted to the pursuit of truth, as he understood it, exploring with equal 7.eSt some difficult principle of philosophy or the most effective usc of the little fingers in unbalancing an opponent. It was not always ea..y to foltow his line of thought; he made usc impartially of thought-forms taken, :IS they seemed to serve his purpose, both from Christian lind from Buddhist thinking and sometimes the underlying conceptions did not fit together in the Western mind. But to the end of his life G.K. was searching for answers to unsolved problems. He always wanted to get at the roo~ of things. This intellectual curiosity led him in Judo to study the principl-os of movement. nritish Judo was perhaps hardly then equipped to Sllpport him in an ill\"cstigalioa of this kind but G.K. continued, alone and undaunted, explaining his deductions tn al! who would listen. , 5 The one opponent which C.K. never thoroughly mastered was {he English language. lIis writings abounded in lhe original mot jllS/t: and the unexpected, revealing word-picture but he nCl'er burdened • his mind with grammatical detllils such as the correct m:e of "a" and "the". While 11 delight to his friends, his vcry original usc of the Ill1lguage hampfrt':d him in making pillill both the philosophy behind his conception of Judo and his H1lHlysis of movcllIClll, and this in turn Illll}' be the reason why to his gtelH tegn:l he 11':18 never able to win ,t for Judo the pbcc he thought it should hnyc in ofiicinl Bl'itish physical ~ education. He probably never realised Ilow f:lr he had got or how .:. much easier is the task now relllaining", starting from the foundations .." ~ he bid. The :lchiewment, measured b) the distance between the ~t:lrting point and the finish of the race, \\lIS immense, and the ability it!i1 which produced it remarkable b) :lll) ~tlllldard. Incll"Cd. "there were giants in the earth in those da),s." nut of all his qlllliities it is for his kindliness and patience that i',~ :', C.l{. will be most fondly remembered. These made him the friend :1I1d advisor of generations of judokn. lIe W:Hl consulted on :1 vast ~"'"".. " \';lriety of personal problems. involving in nne lI':ly or lHlother most of the troubles afflicting mankind, nnd it was llcldom indeed that he was not :lble to help. To realise what we owe to him, RS judnkll and as friends, we h:I\'e only to ask ourselves wllt~thcr we would have cnjoyed life so much if C.l{. had not ~el out from ):ll'lIn to sl,.-ek his fortunc some sixty years ago. The answer mOIOt of us would give is the best tribute we can pay him. Sigurdur Johannsson wrJles on behalf oj Judoka III Ice/aud "CaU'r rli('. all(1 kilu",cl/ di('.