Takisaburo Tobari
Japanese martial artist
Takisaburo Tobari (戸張瀧三郎, Tobari Takisaburo; 1866–?) was a Japanese jujutsu and judo practitioner. He was one of the earliest members of Kodokan.
Biography
Born in 1865, Tobari graduated as a jujutsuka of the Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū school in Edo, later known as Tokyo. He trained under Kentaro Inoue, the same master as Sakujiro Yokoyama, and like Yokoyama himself, Tobari would join Jigoro Kano's Kodokan school, becoming an early judoka. After reaching the 3rd dan, he was placed as a hand-to-hand teacher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, along with other practitioners of judo and jujutsu.
Challenge matches
In January 1891, Tobari fought a challenge match against a fellow professor, Mataemon Tanabe from the Fusen-ryū jujutsu school, in the police station of Hisamatsu. During the bout, although Tobari was significantly heavier than his opponent, Tanabe reversed an osoto makikomi attempt, and after Tanabe pinned him with kami-shiho-gatame, the judoka was choked unconscious by juji-jime choke. The match was the hardest defeat suffered by the Kodokan school against a jujutsu challenger at the time.
In spring 1892, having feverishly worked in his grappling skills, Tobari challenged Tanabe in order to avenge his loss. Although Tobari successfully blocked Tanabe's signature tomoe nage, he committed the mistake to voluntarily engage him on the ground.
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