1900 Sep – Demonstration of Judo at the Alhambra, London. Yokayama (sic) chief instructor of Tokyo police, Yamashti (sic) and Tobari
1901 Census – Shozo Kanaya footman to Minister Hayashi, Japanese ambassador to the UK. Aged 18
1901 August – Uyenishi Sadakazu and Tani Yukio in London, demonstrating jujitsu – arranged by Barton Wright at his Bartitsu club
1903 June – Uyenishi founds the “School of Japanese Self Defence” Golden Square, Piccadilly
1904 Uyenishi (Raku) and Tani Yukio promoted by William Bankier as Pocket Hercules
1904 April 40 gentlemen and six ladies in London learning Ju jitsu at Golden Square school – Prof S.K Uyenishi. First lesson is to learn how to fall
1904 October – Sadako Theresa daughter of Uyenishi and Louisa Motte Kitchee (Murakami Kumataro’s older daughter) born
1904 November – S.K. Uyenishi arrived in Southampton from Kobe on Zieten (Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen)
1904 December – Miyake Taruji (Tarro) arrives in Britain, demonstrates at Oxford St School. Miyake, Tani, Eida, Kanaya, Uyenishi at the Japanese School
1904 December – Tani defeated by Miyake
Tani opens “Japanese School of Ju Jitsu” 305 Oxford Street t
1905 October – Uyenishi’s son Iwao born
1906 February – The Game of Ju-jitsu – by Miyake and Tani published
1906 March – Uyenishi’s son Iwao dies
1906 March – Shozo Kanaya leaves Liverpool for Yokohama
1906 April – Professor Long, St Gabriel’s Gymnastic club, including ju-jitsu. Messrs Y Kato and Y Ogita
1906 May – Gunji Koizumi arrives in Wales
1906 August – Koizumi joins Uyenishi’s school
1906 September – Uyenishi in Paris
1906 October – Uyenishi and Louisa’s daughter Kiyoko Kiku born in London
1906 October – Polytechnic School of Ju-Jitsu under direction of Prof Akitaro Ono, formerly Japanese RN Academy Yokosuka, at Polytechnic Annex, Oxford Street
1906 November – The Textbook of Ju Jutsu published, written by Uyenishi
1906 November – Raku (Uyenishi) Jap wrestler, gives a scientific demonstration of Ju0jitsu assisted by Miss Moto [Louisa Motte Murakami], This young lady can certainly take care of herself, and the young man upon whom she exercises her skill has my deepest sympathy (Music Hall and Theatre Review 9 Nov p 6)
1906 Uyenishi’s school of Japanese self Defence taken over by Edith and William H Garrud
1907 February Mitsuyo Maeda arrives in England
1907 Uyenishi travels to Spain with Miyake and Mitsuyo Maeda, leaving dojo with Garrud
1907 March – Koizumi and Chiba demonstrate at School of Japanese Self Defence
1907 March – Miss Gaby Deslys and Mr S.K. Eida in The New Aladdin at the Gaiety theatre
1907 August – Eida and Falco utilise ju jitsu tricks to a vocal and dancing turn
1907 December – Murakami Kumataro’s younger daughter Omoyo Maude marries Francis William Long, another Jujutsu practitioner
1908 January – Uyenishi’s daughter Freda Sakuko born
1908 April – Uyenishi departs for Portugal with Eitaro Deguchi
1908 December – Uyenishi’s son Osono born in UK
1909 February – Eida marries Ellen Brown (Nellie Falco)
1909 May – Uyenishi’s son Osono dies in UK
1909 September – “sudden illness of Raku (Prof S K Uyenishi) Prof Tobari is deputising – Prof Degushi in the same art is equally well received – Kursaal, Southend on Sea
1909 October – Uyenishi departs for Rio de Janeiro with Mr De Teguchi
1909 Shigeichiro Mishiku takes over Uyenishi’s school and sets up new dojo in Strathmore Gardens. https://www.uksko.org/about/busen-history/busen-history/
1909 December – Francis Long travels to New York on his own.
1910 January – Miss Long, the lady ju jitsu expert of Croydon defeats Mr Dawkins in 7 mins
1910 – Koizumi returns to Britain from New York
1910 – Falco and Eida demonstrating jujitsu and dancing
1910 April – Shigeichiro Mishiku, merchant, arrives in Liverpool with Ushizo Ono, also a merchant. Takes over Uyenishi’s school https://www.uksko.org/about/busen-history/busen-history/
1910 May – October Japan British Exhibition – 40 sumo wrestlers and demonstrations of Jujutsu.
1910 June – Kumeji Deguchi arrives in London from Yokohama with 5 boys under 12 including Fujii Hirokichi, Hamamura Kizaburo, Matsui Shigejiro, Yoshii Kozo, Nakane Misaburo
1911 February – Louisa Motte Uyenishi leaves England with Misses S, K, T and Master T Uyenishi for Kobe
1911 February – The Ealing Scientific Physical Training Academy, Burlington House, Bond Street, Ealing opens with Ju Jitsu taught by Professor Koizumi
1911 April census:
Suyekichi Eida and Ellen boarding in Barnsley – music hall artist
Mr A Ohno, instructor of Jujitsu, Mrs M Ohno wife, G Ohno daughter aged 4. Probably Akitaro Ohno and Matilda Ohno. 34 Dudley Gardens Ealing – near to Aokis
George Koizumi boarding in Moreton Place, Electrical Engineer, with the Winstanleys. Ida Winstanley is upholsterer and antique dealer 8 years older than him.
1911 June – White City, Ju-jitsu hall, at the Coronation exhibition – Taka, Mahbara, Isogai, Izumi, Professor Ohno
1911 December – Anglo Japanese Exhibition Alexandra Rink, Swansea, artisans, geishas, jugglers, ju-jitsu wrestlers, ivory carving, pottery working painting, embroidery, toy making, rice cake making, defence and attach etc. Tea served by geisha girls.
1912 April – Koizumi marries Ida Winstanley
1912 June – Yuko Tani and Tarro Miyake in Spain demonstrating ju jitsu
1912 July – Eida admitted to Hanwell Mental Hospital
1912 October – Eida discharged
1912 December – Eida readmitted to Hanwell Mental Hospital
1913 March – Garrud’s Ju-Jutsu Institute
1913 Miyake Taruji marries Norah Chandler
1913 July – Kazue Dora Uyenishi born in Kobe
1913 December – last peformances of Falco and Eida in Ireland – ju-jitsu speciality and dancing act.
1914 August – Miyake returns from Japan
1914 September – Miyake’s daughter Hanako born in Glasgow
1914 September – Miyake travels to New York – settles in USA. Without Norah and Hanako?
1915 – Shigeichiro Mishiku of Eastbourne – expert in Japanese china and arts, manager of the Japanese Artisans’ Troupe of Tokio
1918 Budokwai founded by Koizumi in London – Tani teaches there. By the end of the first year, the club has 54 members, 4 British, rest Japanese.
1920 Yukio Tani is running a boarding house at 37 Clarendon Road, where Mary Ferran has lived since 1918 and Tani’s child Moya is born.
1921 census – Yukio Tani boarding house keeper, music hall, wrestler, Kensington, with Mary Ferran and Moya. Koizumi Gunji with Ida and Hana in London. Is also working as antique lacquer restorer, consultant to V&A. Norah Miyake and Hanako in Wales.
1928 Uyenishi Sadakazu dies in Japan
1928 Louisa Moto Uyenishi and Freda/Sakuko (20+ years old), Janet (12+ years old) and Dora/Kazue (15+ years old) start journey back to Britain but Louisa dies of small pox in Shanghai.
1950 Yukio Tani dies in London
1965 Koizumi Gunji dies in London
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