JIGORO KANO was born 28th October 1860, he died 4th May 1938

Jigoro Kano was born on October 28th, 1860 in the village of Mikage located close to Kobe
Jigoro was Jerosaku Kano's third son. Jerosaku Kano was a merchant in shipping equipment.
When Jigoro was 11 the family moved to Tokyo.
When Jigoro was17 he enrolled in the Imperial University to study economical and political sciences.
Jigoro learned Jui-Jitsu.at the age of 18 with Teinosuke Yagi and then with Hachinosuke Fukuda, master of the Tensjo-Shinyo school. Hachinosuke Fukuda’s died in 1879.
Hachinosuke Fukuda’s successor was Iso, who was 64. Iso died in 1881
Fukuda and Iso both left the school scriptures to Jigoro.
Jigoro then went to learn jui-jitsu from Jikubo, head of the Kito School until 1882
In 1882, when Jigoro was 22, he opened the Kodokan in Tokyo at the Eishoji temple

BIOGRAPHY OF JIGORO KANO

1860: October 28, birth of Jigoro KANO.
1869: death of his/her mother.
1867-1871 he studies traditional: Chinese and penmanship.
1870: goes to Tokyo.
1872: English studies.
1874: between at the national school of the foreign languages.
1875: between at the national school Kaïsei which becomes Université of Tokyo in 1877.
1877: between with the faculty of literature and starts Ju-jutsu with Fukuda Hachinosuke.
1879: demonstration in front of the Grant General. Death of Fukuda. Kano receives Densho of the school (books of transmission) and continuous with Iso Masatomo.
1880: demonstration at the university with the school of Tozuka.
1881: bachelor of arts. Death of Iso Masatomo. Kano between at the school of Kito with Iikubo Tsunetoshi.
1882: Professor of economy and policy. Kano moves in Eishoji, melts a boarding house, Kodokan and Kobunkan. It finishes its studies of philosophy.
1883: Kano receives the diploma of teaching (Menkyo) of Iikubo.
1884: professor of economy at the school of agriculture.
1885: becomes secretary of the school of the noble ones. Two of its pupils, Yamashita and Yokoyama, become instructors with the font.
1886: Kodokan moves in the Fujimi district.
1887: the techniques of projection (40 of the gokyo), the techniques of control (Katame-No-Kata) for Randori, Ju-No-kata and Itsutsu-No-kata are formalized.
1888: death of Iikubo. Yokoyama and Sato give courses of Judo to the school of the marine. Kano replaces the vice-chancellor of the school of the noble ones.
1889: speech of Kano to the meeting of physical education: Judo in general and its value from the education point of view of. Study trip in Europe, via Shangaï. Return by Cairo.
1891: return of voyage. Marriage. To advise of the Minister for the education national and Direct of the College of Kumamoto.
1893: returns to Tokyo. Higher normal principal.
1899: the Judo re-enters in Butoku kaï of Kyoto.
1900: creation of the research center in Kodokan.
1901: Kodokan has 6 000 members and 212 black belts.
1902: Kano goes to China for official inspection. Yamashita goes to the USA.
1905: 2nd voyage in China. Kano is member of commissions of national Education.
1907: Kodokan has Shimotomisaka: 207 tatamis.
1909: member of the Olympic International Committee.
1911: creation of a section for the training of professors de Judo in Kodokan.Il is elected president of the Japanese Sporting Federation.
1912: Kano goes with the OJ of Stockholm. Meet with Coubertin. Change of the rules of Randori and Shodan in Kodokan. Death of Yokoyama.
1915 : It creates re-examined " Kodokan ", and receives hand of king de Suède the medal of the 7th Olympic Games.
1920: 3rd voyage in Europe, via the USA Goes in Budokaï of London with Aïda. OJ Antwerp.
1926: creation of the female section in Kodokan on new bases of Judo.
1928: 4th voyage in Europe, via China and Moscow. OJ in Amsterdam. Meeting in Versailles. Demonstration in Italy with Matakatsu Mori. Geneva. Paris. London. Berlin. To the Ministry for national education will make a demonstration with Nagaoka and Mifune on Seiryoku Zen' yo-No-kata. Introduction of the practice of Bojutsu of the Katori school. Speech on the Judo with Shangaï.
1929: Kano and Yamashita show Koshiki-No-kata with the Imperial Palate (film).
1932: goes to the USA OJ and Speeches to Los Angeles.
1933: 5th voyage in Europe, via China, Moscow, Vienna. Speech and meets Feldenkrais in Paris at the technical school. Demonstration with Kotani with Joinville. Demonstration in London. Conference in Munich. Speech in Madrid.
1934: 6th voyage in Europe, via Moscow, Vienna, Athens (Speech). Goes to Paris with Nagaoka (brings films on Randori and Kata to Feldenkrais). Return by Colombo, Singapore, Hong-Kong, Shangaï.
1936: 7th voyage, via the USA OJ of Berlin. Come to see Kawaishi which it recommended to Feldenkrais for the club Free-Japanese of Jiu-jitsu, 62, street Beaubourg, Paris-III°.
1938: 8th voyage in Europe, via Cairo and Athens for the ceremony of death of Coubertin. Kano passes by Italy then Paris to see its former pupil and ambassador of Japan, Sugimura Yotaro. It died on May 4 at the time of its return to 6h30 on board Hikawa-Maru of a pneumonia, two days before arriving at Yokohama.