The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from .

The early history of judo is inseparable from its founder, Japanese polymath and educator , born . Kano was born into a relatively affluent family. His father, Jirosaku, was the second son of the head priest of the Shinto Hiyoshi shrine in Shiga Prefecture. He married Sadako Kano, daughter of the owner of Kiku-Masamune sake brewing company and was adopted by the family, changing his name to Kano. He ultimately became an official in the Shogunal government.

Jigoro Kano had an academic upbringing and, from the age of seven, he studied English, and the under a number of tutors. When he was fourteen, Kano began boarding at an English-medium school, Ikuei-Gijuku in Shiba, Tokyo. The culture of bullying endemic at this school was the catalyst that caused Kano to seek out a at which to train.

Early attempts to find a jujutsu teacher who was willing to take him on met with little success. With the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Meiji Restoration of 1868, jujutsu had become unfashionable in an increasingly westernised Japan. Many of those who had once taught the art had been forced out of teaching or become so disillusioned with it that they had simply given up. Nakai Umenari, an acquaintance of Kano's father and a former soldier, agreed to show him "kata", but not to teach him. The caretaker of Jirosaku's second house, Katagiri Ryuji, also knew jujutsu, but would not teach it as he believed it was no longer of practical use. Another frequent visitor, Imai Genshiro of school of jujutsu, also refused. Several years passed before he finally found a willing teacher.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who grew up in academia?
2. When did he begin to study English?
3. Under a single helper?
4. When did he board at a scholarly institute?
5. What was it called?
6. Located where?
7. What did he create?
8. Was it derived from other forms?
9. Why did he get into fighting forms?
10. Was it easy to locate a helper?
11. What was he trying to learn?
12. Why was it hard to locate a helper?
13. After what event?
14. When did that happen?
15. Had the country fallen deep into eastern ways?
16. Who ended up helping him at first?
17. Did he help him learn the specific form he wanted?
18. What did he help with then?
19. How many other people wouldn't help?
20. Was it because he was poor?

Numbered answers:
1. Jigoro Kano had an academic upbringing
2. seven
3. no
4. When he was fourteen
5. Ikuei-Gijuku
6. in Shiba
7. judo
8. no
9. bullying
10. no
11. jujutsu
12. jujutsu had become unfashionable
13. the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Meiji Restoration
14. 1868
15. no
16. Nakai Umenari
17. no
18. "kata"
19. two
20. no