Category Archives: Jiujitsu

“Japanese Wrestling” (27 October, 1898)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 14th December 2012 A report from the Morning Post newspaper on one of E.W. Barton-Wright’s early jiujitsu demonstrations in London. Mr. Barton-Wright’s demonstration of Japanese wrestling at the St. James’s Hall last … Continue reading

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“It was jiu-jitsu!” (1906)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 2nd January 2012 I drew a deep breath as I mastered the contents of this momentous document. Then, just as I was about to replace it in the ingenious receptacle contrived for … Continue reading

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“Professor Kano and His Judo School” (from “A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan”, 1906)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 14th March 2019 Bartitsu founder Edward Barton-Wright spent three years, between roughly 1895-98, living in Kobe, Japan, where he worked as an antimony smelting specialist for E.H. Hunter and Company.  By his … Continue reading

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“Raku, the Japanese Wrestler” (1907)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 8th March 2019 Sadakazu Uyenishi was the last of four Japanese jujitsu instructors to be employed at the Bartitsu Club.  During 1901, Uyenishi frequently partnered Yukio Tani in Club demonstrations, alternated with Tani in … Continue reading

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“Japanese ‘Bartitsu’” (1901)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 7th March 2019 The author of this short critical article, first published in the Sheffield Evening Telegraph of 28 August 1901, jumps to several mistaken conclusions about Bartitsu, jiujitsu and Japanese wrestling as a general … Continue reading

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“Jiu Jitsu For Mental Nurses” (1911)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 6th November 2017 A historical curiosity from the Aberdeen Press and Journal of 4 January, 1911, detailing the self-defence training of psychiatric nurses via the game of “Indian wrestling” and some basic jiujitsu techniques.  Interestingly, … Continue reading

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The Athletic Jagendorfer (1905)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 2nd October 2017 According to a report in the Birmingham Daily Gazette of 12 October, 1905, the celebrated wrestler, strongman and club-swinging champion Georg Jagendorfer would shortly begin instructing the Viennese police in the gentle … Continue reading

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“The Claims of Ju-Jitsu” (The Sportsman, 4th May 1906)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd September 2017 The following letter to the editor of The Sportsman was written during the ongoing “jujitsu vs. boxing” controversy of 1906-7. The “boxing vs. jujitsu” debate was typically argued from a theoretical … Continue reading

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“Le Jiu-jitsu” (11 November, 1905)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 3rd August 2017 A gallery of cartoons from the Parisian magazine Le Rire, imagining the impact of jiu-jitsu upon French society in the wake of jiujitsuka Ernest Regnier’s victory over savateur Georges Dubois.

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“Tani, the Japanese Wrestler” (1905)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 11th July 2017 From the 1905 omnibus edition of Mind and Body: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education: JIU-JITSU HAS 300 MOVES THAT AN EXPERT MUST KNOW, AND HE CAN THEN DEFEAT ANY … Continue reading

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