Mikinosuke is often erroneously transcribed, particularly in France, as Mikonosuke. Kawaishi was born in Himeji in 1899 and having studied judo in Kyoto at the...

the time, Kanō used only white and black belts. Some believe that Mikonosuke Kawaishi was the first to introduce additional colors in 1935 when he began...

studied directly with Mikonosuke Kawaishi (10th Dan), his assistant Shozo Awazu (9th Dan), and Minoru Mochizuki (10th Dan). Kawaishi was a student of Jigoro...

Yukio Tani and Taro Miyake in the United Kingdom from 1900/1904, Mikonosuke Kawaishi in France, and others). Virgílio, p. 9 Virgílio, p. 93 Bunasawa,...

adopted the judo colored belt system developed thirty years prior by Mikonosuke Kawaishi and forty years prior by the London Budokwai, but instituted a separation...

The first demonstration of a gogoplata as it is used today was in Mikonosuke Kawaishi's book My Method of Judo, where it was named as kakato-jime (踵絞, heel...

studied with many Japanese masters including Jigoro Kano's student, Mikonosuke Kawaishi, and his assistant, Shozo Awazu. He was one of the few non-Japanese...

during a visit, but it was Tadashi Abe's teaching at the judo dojo of Mikonosuke Kawaishi where aikido was first taught on a regular basis in the west. In...

Armlocks (Book Review). www.bjj.org. URL last accessed March 4, 2006. Kawaishi, Mikonosuke (1955). My method of judo. W. Foulsham & Co. Gracie; Renzo, Gracie...

and Economic Organization of Modern Japan. Tokyo: Kondo Shoten. Kawaishi, Mikonosuke. (1955). My Method of Judo. London: W. Foulsham. Aida, Hikoichi....

He diversified into judo in 1945 at the 'Judo Club de France', Mikonosuke Kawaishi's second club. He was the 96th French black belt and is now ranked...