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Kanō Jigorō. Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎, 10 December 1860[note 1] – 4 May 1938[4]) was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo. Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport.
Jigoro Kano was born on October 28, 1860, in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. His father, Jirosaku Kireshiba, was the 4th son of a Shinto priest, and his mother, Sadako, was the daughter of a well-to-do sake brewer. Jigoro was their 3rd son.
In 1889, while en route to Europe on an educational study tour, the 29-year-old Jigoro gave a Judo demonstration aboard ship to the mostly non-Japanese passengers while steaming across the Indian Ocean.
Eighteen eighty-two was an exceptional year for Jigoro Kano. He became a teacher at Gakushuuin (the then private school for nobility). It was also the year that he established the Kodokan, the Kano Juku (Preparatory School), and the Koubunkan.
Jigoro was appointed to the post of headmaster at the Advanced Teachers Training School when he was 37 years old (1897). Given that the students at this school would be Japan's future educators, Jigoro strove to bring in the best teachers in order to provide the highest quality education.
In 1882, Kano established his professional career and at the same time he refined his judo, the fruit of years of learning and reflection. Faced with a growing number of students who followed his teaching, Kano decided, in February 1882, to move to Eishoji.
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Section navigation. In May 1882 Jigoro Kano was inspired by traditional forms of combat to create a method of physical, intellectual and moral education, which he named judo. Initially considered as a self-defence system, judo is step by step recognized for its educational value, its benefits for the development of the body and the character.
