“Photo of the Day - Jigoro Kano” by Chris King

The caption for the photo states that Kano was highly impressed with O’Sensei’s budo. I’m wondering about the effect that Kano had on O’Sensei. The fact that Kano had ‘synthesized elements of old-style jujutsu schools with his own principles and philosophy of education to create modern judo’ sounds quite similar to what O’Sensei had done with Aikido. Knowing what Kano had done with Judo must have given O’Sensei some incentive to also create a ‘martial art’ that was ‘for the entire world’.

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Posted by Stanley Pranin on Apr 4th, 2009: Reader Pick, Recommended Reading (post a comment)