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Tenth dan. Red or Black. jūdan (十段) Eleventh dan Twelfth dan and higher*. White or Red or Black. juichidan (十一段)junidan (十二段) Practitioners of Judo (柔道家, Jūdōka) are ranked according to their skill and knowledge, and, for high ranking dan grades, their contribution to the art. Their rank is indicated by the colour of ...
Dan. The dan (段) ranking system is used by many Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, and other martial arts organizations to indicate the level of a person's ability within a given system. Used as a ranking system to quantify skill level in a specific domain, it was originally used at a Go school during the Edo period. [ 1 ]
Shōzō Nakano (Japan, 1888–1977) promoted to Kōdōkan 10th dan in 1977. Tamio Kurihara (Japan, 1896–1979) promoted to Kōdōkan 10th dan in 1979. Sumiyuki Kotani (Japan, 1903–1991) promoted to Kōdōkan 10th dan in 1984. Ichirō Abe (Japan, 1922–2022) promoted to Kōdōkan 10th dan on 8 January 2006, at age 83.
Toshirō Daigo in the final of the 1951 All-Japan Judo Championships. Daigo was born in January 1926 and educated at Tokyo University of Education. He was All-Japan Judo Champion in 1951 and 1954, and the author of Kodokan Judo: Throwing Techniques, a definitive text on judo throws. Daigo died on 10 October 2021, at the age of 95.
Sport. Sport. Judo. Rank. 10th dan black belt. Coached by. Kanō Jigorō. Kyuzo Mifune (三船 久蔵, Mifune Kyūzō, April 21, 1883 – January 27, 1965) has been categorized as one of the greatest exponents of the art of judo after the founder, Kanō Jigorō. He is considered by many to be the greatest judo technician ever, after Kanō.
Rank. 10th dan black belt. Yoshimi Ōsawa (大澤慶巳, Ōsawa Yoshimi, 6 March 1926 – 21 October 2022) was a Japanese judoka. [ 1][ 2] Before his death, he was the only living Kodokan 10th dan (and one of only 15 to have attained this rank), having been promoted at the New Year Kagami Biraki Ceremony, 8 January 2006 along with Toshiro Daigo ...
Travis Stevens. World Champ. Pan American Champ. Travis Stevens (born February 28, 1986) is an American judoka who competed in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics. [5] He competes in the men's half-middleweight (−81 kg) division. On August 9, 2016, Stevens became the third American male judoka to win a silver medal in the Olympics.
He co-authored The Sport of Judo, Boys' Judo: Sport, Defense, and The Techniques of Judo (Tuttle Martial Arts). These books sold over 250,000 copies. He served as a technical advisor for "Mrs Judo", a movie about Keiko Fukuda. He is a 10th dan in Judo, promoted by the Nanka Judo Yudanshakai on October 31, 2020.