Joseph Svinth
23rd June 2000, 10:32
A partial bibliography. This one is geared toward the Pacific Northwest, and much of what is there pertains more to the culture of judo rather than how-to.
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the temple tour
on the island of Shikoku
is now much easier
on the pilgrim bus
-- Richard Hayes
Useful newspapers included Seattle’s Great Northern Daily News, Japanese-American Courier, and North American Times. For the wartime era, the Minidoka Irrigator (Hunt, Idaho) and (Portland, Oregon) Evacuazette were consulted. And, for the postwar period, The Northwest Times (Seattle), Pacific Citizen (Salt Lake City), and the Argus-Observer (Ontario, Oregon) were also helpful.
Metropolitan dailies were another rich source. The Japan Times (Tokyo) was the most useful individual newspaper, but US metropolitan newspapers such as the Bellingham Herald, Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and World, Portland Oregonian, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Times, Spokane Spokesman-Review, and Tacoma Daily Ledger also were consulted. Unfortunately, with the exception of the New York Times, there are rarely indexes to sports pages. Therefore their use is a tedious process. John Litz has, however, indexed Seattle Times entries relating to Japanese and Japanese Americans up to 1910, and is currently working on additional indexes extending coverage through World War II.
Published community histories often provided useful details. Unfortunately there are many communities without published histories, and some of those that do have turned out books that ignore or slight ethnic minorities. For overcoming this problem school publications deserve more respect than they usually get. The University of Washington Daily, for example, is a surprisingly good source of local history. High school and college yearbooks also provide much interesting detail.
For general background to Japanese combative sports two dated but still useful books are E.J. Harrison, The Fighting Spirit of Japan (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1982) and Robert W. Smith, A Complete Guide to Judo: Its Story and Practice (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1958). For more recent writings, try the Internet site maintained by Kim Sol at the University of Montana. The URL is http://www.bstkd.com/judorev.htm
The following are recommended readings on specific topics.
Japanese Vocabulary
Kask, Alexander D.C. Japanese for the Martial Arts (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1996).
The Development of Kodokan Judo
Iizuka, Kunisaburo. “I Remember,” Revue Judo Kodokan, VII:2 (15 Mar 1957), 2/1150-4/1152; VII:3 (May 15, 1957), 5/1185-9/1189.
Kano, Jigoro. “The Contribution of Jiudo to Education,” Journal of Health and Physical Education, 3 (1932), 37-40, 58.
-----. “Jiudo: The Japanese Art of Self Defence,” Living Age, 314 (1922), 724-731.
-----. “Olympic Games and Japan,” Dai Nippon, 1936, 197-199.
-----. “Principles of Judo and Their Applications to all Phases of Human Activity,” unpublished lecture given at the Parnassus Society, Athens, Greece, on June 5, 1934, reprinted as “Principles of Judo” in Budokwai Quarterly Bulletin, April 1948, 37-42.
Kano, Risei. “The Kodokan Judo” (Tokyo: The Kodokan, 1951)
Maekawa, Mineo. “Jigoro Kano’s Thoughts on Judo, with Special Reference to the Approach of Judo Thought during His Jujutsu Training Years,” Bulletin of the Association for the Scientific Studies on Judo, Kodokan, Report V (1978), reprint from http://www.bstkd.com/kano1.htm
----- and Hasegawa, Y. “Studies on Jigoro Kano: Significance of His Ideals on Physical Education and Judo,” Bulletin of the Association for the Scientific Studies on Judo, Kodokan, Report II (1963); reprint from http://www.bstkd.com/jobo.1.htm
Matsudaira, Tsuneo. “Sports and Physical Training in Modern Japan,” Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, 8 (1907/1909), 120.
“Nagaoka Shihan: A Short Biography,” tr. by G.R. Gleeson, Budokwai Quarterly Bulletin, April 1953, 17-18.
Waterhouse, David, “Kanô Jigorô and the Beginnings of the Jûdô Movement,” Toronto, symposium, 1982, 169-178.
Pacific Northwest Issei
Azuma, Eiichiro. “A History of Oregon’s Issei, 1880-1952,” Oregon Historical Quarterly (Winter 1993-94), 315-367.
Benedict, Ruth. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989).
Burke, Ed and Burke, Betty, “In a Chorus of Shadows: The Story of Nippon Kan and Its Restoration,” in Turning Shadows into Light: Art and Culture of the Northwest’s Early Asian/Pacific Community, ed. by Mayumi Tsutakawa and Alan Chong Lau (Seattle: Young Pine Press, 1982).
Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (New York: The Free Press, 1988).
Ito, Kazuo. Issei: A History of Japanese Immigrants in North America, tr. by Shinichiro Nakamura and Jean S. Gerard (Seattle: Japanese Community Service, 1973).
Kohl, Stephen W., ed. and tr. “An Early Account of Japanese Life in the Pacific Northwest: Writings of Nagai Kafu,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, April 1979, 58-68.
Tamura, Linda. The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon’s Hood River Valley (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993).
Yoshitsugu (Yoshiaki) Yamashita
Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, ed. by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919).
Tomita, Tsuneo. “Histoire du Judo,” Revue Judo Kodokan, XII:5 (November 1962), 1/2163-160/2322.
Tuhy, John E. Sam Hill: The Prince of Castle Nowhere (Beaverton, OR: Timber Press, 1983).
Tokugoro Ito
De Leonardis, Anthony. “The Lively Early Years of U.S. Judo,” Black Belt, March 1967, 26-31.
Seattle Nisei
Miyamoto, Shitaro Frank. Social Solidarity among the Japanese in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1939, rev. ed., 1984).
Sone, Monica. Nisei Daughter (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979).
Seattle Dojo
“How Seattle’s Sons of Old Japan Practice Jiu-Jitsu,” Seattle Sunday Times, March 10, 1907, Magazine Section, 1.
Smith, Robert W. A Complete Guide to Judo (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1958).
-----. Martial Musings: A Portrayal of Martial Arts in the 20th Century (Erie, PA: Via Media Publishing, 1999).
Tentoku Kan
Yoshida, Jim and Hosokawa, Bill. The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida (New York: William Morrow, 1972).
South Park
Cleveland High School. Duwamish Diary, 1849-1949 (Seattle: Shorey Book Store, facsimile reproduction, 1974).
Eyler, Melba and Yeager, Evelyn A. The Many Roads to Highline (Seattle: Highline Publishing Co., 1972).
Bellevue
McDonald, Lucille. Bellevue: Its First 100 Years (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1984).
Tsushima, Asaichi. “History of Hard Struggle for Reclamation Work of Bellevue Area by the Japanese People Before World War II,” summary tr. by Iwao Matsushita (Bellevue, WA: Self-published, 1952; tr. published 1974), University of Washington Manuscripts and Archives Division, Accession Number 1028. Bellevue’s Marymoor Museum has another translation. Completed in February 1991 by Harriet Yamagishi Mihara, Alan Hideo Yabuki, Chiye Ito Yabuki, and Rose Yabuki Matsushita, the latter is more complete than the former.
Bainbridge Island
Price, Andrew Jr. Port Blakely: The Community Captain Renton Built (Seattle: Port Blakely, 1989).
Tanaka, Stefan Akio. “The Nikkei on Bainbridge Island, 1883-1942: A Study of Migration and Community Development,” unpublished MA thesis, University of Washington, 1977.
Green Lake
Akichika, Yutaka Nishitani. “Nishitani Families in the United States” (Tokyo: Self-published, 1979?).
Bender, Barbara L. Drake. Growing Up With Lake Forest Park: The Early Decades in ‘North Seattle’ (Seattle: Shoreline Historical Museum, two volumes, 1988).
Dubrow, Gail Lee, Van Nostrand, Maren, and Tuttle, Cathy. Meadowbrook Community History (Seattle: Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, 1995).
Fiset, Louis. ”’Green Lake John’ Settled on First Homestead at Green Lake in 1869,” Green Lake News, 2:1, 2.
Interview with Martha Nishitani, May 16, 1998 (Sara Yamasaki, interviewer), in Densho Project collection at Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, Washington; see also the Hashitani Family Collection at Four Rivers Cultural Center, Ontario, Oregon.
Sunnydale
Eyler, Melba and Yeager, Evelyn A. The Many Roads to Highline (Seattle: Highline Publishing Co., 1972).
Nomura, Gail M. ”Tsugiki, a grafting: a history of a Japanese pioneer woman in Washington State,” Women’s Studies, 14:1 (1987), 15-37.
White River Valley
Flewelling, Stan. Farmlands: The Story of Thomas, A Small Agricultural Community in King County, Washington (Auburn, WA: Erick Sanders Historical Society, 1990).
Kitagawa, Daisuke. Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years (New York: Seabury Press, 1967).
Nishinoiri, John Isao. “Japanese Farms in Washington,” unpublished MA thesis, University of Washington, 1926. (Although the University of Washington spells Nishinoiri’s middle name “Iwao,” historian Stan Flewelling assures me it was actually “Isao.”)
White River Valley Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. “A Pictorial Album of the History of the Japanese of the White River Valley” (Auburn, WA: White River Japanese American Citizens League, 1986).
Tacoma and Environs
Fukui, Shuichi. “History of the Tacoma Japanese,” unpublished typewritten translation in the Ronald Magden collection, Tacoma, WA: 1941.
History of the Japanese of Tacoma, tr. by James Watanabe (Seattle: Pacific Northwest Council, Japanese American Citizens League, 1986).
History of Southeastern Pierce County, ed. by Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society (Tacoma, WA: Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society, 1989).
Magden, Ronald E. Furusato: Tacoma-Pierce County Japanese (Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Japanese Community Service, 1998).
Nakagawa, Martha. “Kohei Yoshida: Judo Pioneer,” Pacific Citizen Holiday Issue, December 1999, 59.
Yakima Valley
Heuterman, Thomas H. The Burning Horse: The Japanese-American Experience in the Yakima Valley 1920-1942 (Cheney, WA: Eastern Washington University Press, 1995).
Nomura, Gail M. “Tsugiki, a grafting: a history of a Japanese pioneer woman in Washington State,” Women’s Studies, 14:1 (1987), 15-37.
Potter, Louise Elton and Brulotte, Frieda Eichler. ”Germans from Russia in the Yakima Valley Prior to 1940,” Odessa Digital Library, July 8, 1996 http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/odessa.html
Wapato History and Heritage, ed. by Wapato History Committee (Wapato, WA: Wapato History Committee, 1978).
Yakima Valley Japanese Community. “Profile: Yakima Valley Japanese Community, 1973” (Wapato, WA: Yakima Valley Japanese Community, 1974).
Spokane
Fegan, Bertha M. “Japanese-American History and Culture of the Spokane Area,” Spokane Area Community Workshop, Whitworth College, no date, located in Spokane Public Library Northwest Room.
Issei Commission on Evangelism. Highland Park Methodist Church: Sixty-five Years in Pictures (Spokane: Issei Commission on Evangelism, 1967).
Oregon
Brenneke, R.J., Mar. A., and Veatch, T. “An Outline of the History of Obukan Dojo, Inc. and of Kodokan Judo in Portland” (Portland, OR: Obukan Judo Dojo, Inc., 1979).
Gresham: Stories of Our Past, Campground to City, ed. by W.R. Chilton (Gresham, OR: Gresham Historical Society, 1993).
Idaho
Holm, Debra Nelson, Clark, Lynda Campbell, and Holm, Norman. Nampa’s People 1886-1986 (Nampa, ID: Nampa Centennial Committee, 1986).
British Columbia
Iwamoto, Masamichi. “Vancouver Judo Club and Sensei Satoru Tamoto in the Context of Judo History,” Judo B.C. Digest, 18:3 (Summer 1998), 27-28.
Judo B.C. Digest, 4:2 (Mar-Apr 1986). (The entire issue was devoted to history.)
Leyshon, Glynn A. Judoka: The History of Judo in Canada (Gloucester, Ontario: Judo Canada, 1998).
Nakayama, Gordon G. Issei: Stories of Japanese Canadian Pioneers (Toronto: NC Press, 1984).
Norman, Howard and Tanaka, Jitaro. “Etsuji Morii, Villain or Scapegoat,” in Stories of My People, A Japanese Canadian Journal, ed. by Roy Ito (Hamilton, Ontario: Roy Ito, 1994), 325-337.
Okazaki, Robert K. The Nisei Mass Evacuation Group and P.O.W. Camp ’101’ Angler, Ontario, tr. by Jean M. Okazaki and Curtis T. Okazaki (Scarborough, Ontario: Markham Litho Ltd., 1996).
Stacey, Duncan and Stacey, Susan. Salmonopolis: The Steveston Story (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1994).
Takagaki, Shinzo. “Some Famous Meetings in Canada,” Judo Kodokan Revue, (January 1960), 1634-1637.
[Edited by Joseph Svinth on 06-23-2000 at 01:35 AM]
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