"Textbook of Ju-jutsu" (1905) re-animated

In 1905, ju-jutsu pioneer Sadakazu Uyenishi and his students issued the "Textbook of Ju-jutsu". It was partly illustrated with "cinematographics" produced by the Gaumont Film Company, here re-animated for the first time in over 100 years.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• martial arts
• history
• jujutsu
• jiujitsu
• jujitsu
• old
• Bartitsu
• Sadakazu Uyenishi
• Textbook of Ju-jutsu

[MrOphachew]

Wheres their pants?

[BartitsuSociety]

@MrOphachew - it was pretty common for European jujitsuka to wear shorts in training, at least before the First World War. These ones are unusually short, though.

[bigtimepimpin666]

about 15 years ago Dragon Times put back into print a book that was an instructional on JiJitsu. It was published in England probably at the turn of the century or early XX century for sure. It had a picture of a British cop doing a take down on a person facing away fromt him. It was a great book. Anyone knwo the name of it??

[BartitsuSociety]

@bigtimepimpin666 - from that description of the cover, it sounds very much like W. Bruce Sutherland's "Jujitsu Self Defence", published in 1913. There are free PDFs, etc. of Sutherland's book available online.

[nislijski]

@MrOphachew The pants is something karate users adopted from Judo. For example in Okinawa island poor farmers don't use Kimono or Gi, they go like a sumo wrestlers. Funakoshi Gichin use pants because he was ashameed that promote karate and feel naked in front of Japanese emperor Hirohito. During this period nationalistic japanese change old karate kanji symbols menaing from Chinese art to Empty hand art.

[pheonix1754]

wonderful;thx for sharing this.

[chazzzwazzzer]

I got chills. This is amazing.

[Yamtendo]

LEGIT.

[bloodline321]

Amazing

[helsinki]

very...very...cool

[ZarniwoopUK1]

Great to see how little the throws have changed :)