Fukuda Hachinosuke
A bonesetter and teacher of Tenjin Shin'yo-ryu jujutsu under whom Kano Jigoro trained, and whose widow, after his death, bequeathed the school's scrolls to Kano.
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Fukuda Hachinosuke was a Japanese bonesetter and teacher of the jujutsu school Tenjin Shin'yo-ryu, known mainly as one of Kano Jigoro's main teachers.
One of his teachers was Iso Masatomo, with whom he was friends and who later also taught Kano himself. He taught jujutsu in a ten-mat room adjoining his practice.
In his teaching he favoured the practical use of techniques over ritual form: his students practised randori before learning kata. Kano Jigoro came to him on the recommendation of Yagi Teinosuke.
He died shortly after a jujutsu demonstration for the former US President Ulysses S. Grant, on August 5, 1879. Some sources give his death as 1879 at the age of 52, others place his life at approximately 1828–1880. After his death, his widow decided to bequeath the scrolls (densho) of his school to Kano, and asked that the dojo remain open under his leadership.