An Introduction to Kanō Jigorō – A narrated presentation

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Hello.

This is a bit of an experiment for me – a narrated PowerPoint presentation regarding some portions of the life and times of Kanō Jigorō shihan.
(If it doesn’t work I’ll have to pull this message and delete it.)

Please note that I intentionally read it very slowly to allow my non-native English speaking friends time to digest the slides if my words don’t make sense. If you wish to speed it up, you can speed it up to 2.0x or simply hit the <SPACEBAR> to proceed to the next slide.

Topics include:
– Kanō’s childhood home in Kobe
– Kanō’s activities in the government as lifetime member of the House of Peers
– his contacts with the Yamaguchi Prefecture (former Choshu clan samurai) oligarchs of the new Meiji government
– Kanō’s short career as student radical and political thug / yōjinbō bodyguard
– Kanō and Keiko Fukuda sensei
– Kanō’s travels in and commentary on America

<<<Click on the link below to start the presentation>>>>

https://1drv.ms/p/s!AqGVH6_LTqY0mTFSWY4m2j5r0XPr?e=hduG8H

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Regards,

Lance Gatling ガトリング•ランス
The Kanō Chronicles 嘉納歴代
Tokyo, Japan

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Published by Lance Gatling ガトリング•ランス

Author / lecturer The Kanō Chronicles® 嘉納クロニクルの作者及講義者 www.kanochronicles.com Resident in Japan ~40 years. 40年間弱日本住人 40 years Asian studies. 40年間アジア研究 Japanese speaker and reader. 日本語話者°読者 Former US Army political-military affairs officer and US State Department Foreign Service officer. 元米軍東アジア地域担当官軍事政治事及米国務省外交官 Certified jūdō instructor, All Japan Judo Federation. 全日本柔道連盟指導者 Member of the Board, Tokyo Judo Federation 東京柔道連盟役員 Director, US Embassy Jūdō and Jūjutsu 米大使館柔道場長 www.facebook.com/usejc Nihon Jujutsu® instructor 日本柔術指導者 Director, Tokyo Judo Federation, the largest in Japan. 東京都柔道連盟役員 Advisor, Int'l Martial Arts Federation www.imaf.com 国際武道院国際顧問 Ranked in Kodokan Jūdō, Nihon Jūjutsu, Shintō Musō ryū jōdō, Hapkidō, Takeuchi ryū jūjutsu. Studied other arts. 神道無双流杖道及韓国合気道有段者°備中伝竹内流柔術等武術者

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10 thoughts on “An Introduction to Kanō Jigorō – A narrated presentation”

  1. Hey Lance,
    This is great. I think w/ ppt it’s the same as keynote and you can automatically turn it into a video to upload to Vimeo or YouTube. That may make it easier for people to view, I was just about to give up when it worked!
    But definitely this should be on YouTube and/or Vimeo and (I think) shouldn’t be difficult to do so. If its a file size issue, there should be a workaround.
    One Question — did Kano have any relationship with Sun Yat Sen?
    J

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    1. Thank you –
      Yes, I think the smartphone interface is problematic.

      I’ll look at Youtube – good idea. And yes I think it will convert to a video stream file, not sure if file size really matters.

      Kanō shihan certainly knew of Sun Yat Sen, but I have no references of a personal relationship. Actually Saigo Shiro the judoka had more contact with Sun than Kanō shihan.

      Kanō had a personal relationship with Wang Jingwei.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Jingwei
      the head of the “Wang Ching-wei regime … the common name of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國國民政府; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó Guómín Zhèngfǔ), the government of the puppet state of the Empire of Japan in eastern China called simply the Republic of China.”
      He also knew a number of other famous Chinese of the era, including Mao’s first father in law and high ranking officials on all sides of the 3 way Chinese Civil War.
      I address all that in the long manuscript.

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  2. Hi! Thanks for sharing this. Good to see the various strands of Kano’s life pulled together in this way. Gives it some context. Not sure who your audience is but my only thought might be to have one or two slides at the beginning with a quick overview of the broader developments in Japan at the time, ie Meiji, the role of the Choshu clan, the forces for and against modernization and where Kano sat in all this. Cheers!

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  4. This is an excellent presentation with new information on Kano Shian’s life and influence on modern Japanese society. Congratulations to Gatling Sensei for another important addition to Kodokan Judo history and the history of modern Japan in general.

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  5. Lance, Well done! I guess we learn new things all the time about Kanno Sensei. He sure lived in an exciting time and all of the contributions he made was immeasurable.

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