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Matsugoro Okuda

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in a sparring, throwing him four times, though not without predicting Mifune would become a judo legend. Afterwards, he dedicated himself to teaching, becoming the master of judo historian Fukuichiro Haruyama. Okuda died in his house in 1931.
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Okuda started learning jujutsu from his childhood at the dojo of his father Yoshikatsu (also known as Mankichi Okuda). He first started in the native Fukuno-ryū style, but later branched off to the more popular
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to inaugurate its jujutsu division in 1895 either. However, Okuda would join at some point, being granted the title of honorary judo master
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dojo was becoming infamous in the jujutsu community for its heterodoxy. In 1885, Ichikawa, Otake and Okuda performed a
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in 1867, but nothing of this was ever proven. In 1868, the young Okuda became part of the
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In 1884, while still a police teacher, Okuda created a personal jujutsu style, Okuda-ryū
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in the creation of a style that synthesized them all, and opposed the early
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Okuda had a last highlight in 1903 when he faced a young
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on the Kodokan, leading Okuda to fight a bout against
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Index


Aizu
Mutsu Province
Morioka
Iwate
Kitō-ryū
Tenjin Shinyō-ryū
martial artist
jujutsu
Jigoro Kano
judo
Kitō-ryū
Tenjin Shinyō-ryū
Tokugawa shogunate
hatamoto
Isami Kondo
Shinsengumi
Ryoma Sakamoto
Shōgitai
Boshin War
Battle of Ueno
Takamori Saigo
Kagoshima
Satsuma Rebellion
Yokohama
Tokyo
Shibusawa Library
seoi nage
tomoe nage
police services

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