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Kanō Jigorō

1860 - 1938

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Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎, 10 December 1860 – 4 May 1938) was a Japanese educator, athlete, and the founder of judo. Along with ju-jutsu, judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport. Pedagogical innovations attributed to Kanō include the use of black and white belts, and the introduction of dan ranking to show the relative ranking among members of a martial art style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kanō Jigorō has received more than 1,387,279 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Kanō Jigorō is the most popular martial arts (up from 2nd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Japan (up from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

Kanō Jigorō is most famous for being the founder of judo, which he created in 1882.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Kanō Jigorō ranks 1 out of 118. After him are Ip Man, Gichin Funakoshi, Morihei Ueshiba, Mas Oyama, Wong Fei-hung, Huo Yuanjia, Linda Lee Cadwell, Choi Hong Hi, Conor McGregor, Ankō Itosu, and Masatoshi Nakayama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Kanō Jigorō ranks 4. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Gustav Mahler, and Theodor Herzl. After him are Alphonse Mucha, Klara Hitler, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, Isaac Albéniz, Herman Hollerith, and William Jennings Bryan. Among people deceased in 1938, Kanō Jigorō ranks 3. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Edmund Husserl. After him are Georges Méliès, Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Nikolai Bukharin, Karl Kautsky, Faustina Kowalska, and Charles Édouard Guillaume.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanō Jigorō ranks 9 out of 6,048. Before him are Akihito (1933), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), and Emperor Meiji (1852). After him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Kanō Jigorō ranks 1. After him are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Ankō Itosu (1831), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Motobu Chōki (1870), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), and Morihiro Saito (1928).

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