A japán harcművészet erdélyi mesterei – 1905 és 1942 között
Transylvanian Masters of Japanese Martial Arts between 1905 and 1942

Summary/Abstract: The Western world paid attention to Japanese martial arts because of the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War. A popular version of jūjutsu/jūdō appeared in Transylvania already in the first decade of the 1900s. The post-Second World War political system in both Hungary and Romania, “forgetting” this history, dates the introduction of jūdō to the 1950s. Based on the newly digitized Romanian and Hungarian newspaper reports from the period, this period can be proven to have started several decades earlier. Wladimir Kasulakow was the first black belt instructor in Kolozsvár/Cluj between 1905 and 1920. Emil Neidenbach established the first Western judo school, which operated from 1908 to 1926 in Arad. Gyula/Julius Fleck passed on the teachings of Sasaki Kichisaburō in Budapest and Keichichi Ishigurō between 1928 and 1944 in Transylvania, Bucharest and Budapest. Based on the presentation of the biographies of the three most decisive instructors, Kasulakow, Neidenbach and Fleck, we would like to supplement the jūdō chapter of Romanian and Hungarian sports history with the listed data.

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