“The Repair Shop” restores Yukio Tani’s portrait

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 school. Tani had been among the dojo’s original instructors and taught there until his death aged 69 on January 22nd, 1950.