Hansuke Nakamura was one of the best regarded jujutsu stylists in Japan before the rise of judo, and remains as the most famous exponent of the Ryoi Shinto-ryu school.
22 Facts About Hansuke Nakamura
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Hansuke Nakamura started his training under Ryoi Shinto-ryu master Saizo Shimosaka, and eventually known as a fearsome fighter not only due to his skill, but to his large size for a Japanese man of his time, being 1,76m tall.
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Hansuke Nakamura won the match, breaking Eguchi's arm with an armbar, but the scuffle was so brutal that Eguchi tried to escape the hold by gruesomely biting Hansuke Nakamura's leg.
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Hansuke Nakamura started by kneeling down to goad Samura to go to newaza, where he was skilled, but Samura refused to engage.
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When Hansuke Nakamura was getting up, Samura attacked him with atemi strikes, which Hansuke Nakamura answered to by scoring a high throw.
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However, Samura rolled off with ukemi, and after entangling again he surprisingly captured Hansuke Nakamura's back, locking a hadaka jime for the victory.
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In 1877, by mediation of his master Shimosaka, Hansuke Nakamura became a hand-to-hand instructor for several police services, among them the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
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Hansuke Nakamura shared duties with Uehara, Hisatomi, Samura and Matsugoro Okuda, creating along them a special program to select aspiring policemen by their physical skills.
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Hansuke Nakamura come to be known as one of the toughest men in Japan due to his strength and history of challenges.
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Unlike the previous, Hansuke Nakamura dominated easily the match, pinning Yano under kami shiho gatame, but Yano fouled by biting Hansuke Nakamura in the chest from underneath.
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Around 1883, Hansuke Nakamura fought Hidemi Totsuka, the son of renowned Yoshin-ryu master Hikosuke Totsuka, in a best of three.
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In 1886, with the rise of Jigoro Kano and his Kodokan institute, Hansuke Nakamura sided against them in behalf of Hikosuke Totsuka's Yoshin-ryu, the country's main jujutsu school.
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Hansuke Nakamura challenged one of their members, Tsunejiro Tomita, during the opening of Magoroku Hachitani's Tenshin Shinyo-ryu dojo.
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The judoka followed with an ouchi gari, which Hansuke Nakamura blocked, and a hiza guruma, which seemed successful, but the jujutsuka pulled Tomita to the ground and tried to pin him with kami-shiho-gatame.
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Hansuke Nakamura stopped drinking alcohol and strengthened his neck muscles to avoid being choked out again.
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Hansuke Nakamura's chance came during the Metropolitan Police Department Martial Arts Tournaments, where teams from the Kodokan faced fighters from the Totsuka school.
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Hansuke Nakamura faced off with Sakujiro Yokoyama, an opponent who was only slightly lighter than him, though much younger, and who had just defeated Hansuke Nakamura's old rival Samura, in a match that became legendary.
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Hansuke Nakamura was then about to pin him with kami-shiho-gatame, but Nakamura immediately reversed and pinned Yokoyama with his own hold.
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Similarly, Hansuke Nakamura remained on one knee on the ground challenging him to grapple, knowing Sakujiro was superior on the stand-up.
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Immediately after the Kodokan matches, Hansuke Nakamura challenged again Masaaki Samura.
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Hansuke Nakamura rematched Yokoyama, though being defeated by harai makikomi in a less well received bout.
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Baku Yumemakura wrote a novel series about Hansuke Nakamura named Toten no Shishi.