Fifty Photographs: selections from SCUA collections

Tsuki komi

Title

Tsuki komi

Creator

Unidentified

Date

ca.1904

Extent

1 photograph

Description

Yoshiaki Yamashita is remembered as and the Prometheus of American judo. During a tour of the United States in 1903-1906, Yamashita, his wife, and an assistant taught the martial art in Seattle, Annapolis, and Washington, D.C. Not knowing the language, Yamashita may have brought this photograph album with him to help depict the throws he was teaching. Fude, Yamashita's wife, got in the act too, demonstrating an armlock on her husband, reminding all us of how dear the theme of women overthrowing the patriarchy is to the SCUA heart

Collection:

Yoshiaki Yamashita Photograph Album (PH 006)

Identifier

muph006-b001-i045

Cite As:

Tsuki komi. Unidentified photographer, ca.1904. Yoshiaki Yamashita Photograph Album (PH 006)