Monthly Archives: February 2025

“The Repair Shop” restores Yukio Tani’s portrait

Posted on February 21, 2025 by BartitsuSociety

This episode of the BBC’s Repair Shop series features the painstaking restoration of a 1930s oil portrait of former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani, which had hung for many years on the wall of the venerable London Budokwai martial arts … Continue reading →

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Yuki Tani watches catch-as-catch-can wrestling in 1926

Posted on February 21, 2025 by BartitsuSociety

A few seconds of footage of former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani watching a catch-as-catch-can wrestling championship in Finsbury Park, Middlesex. Tani would have been around 49 years old at the time this film was shot; about a decade later … Continue reading →

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