User:Akira Sugihara~enwiki/sandbox

“Jiro” Mashai Nakamura Born on May 15 1897 in Aizu prefecture of Fucushima was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Mashai, Nakamura known like “Jiro” for being the youngest of the four sons of the samurai Masatomo Nakamura and Riyoko Mizuhara, at about the age of 10 or 12 learned by Yamamoto Tamiza Hideya sensei a very popular jujutsu system in Japan, the Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū. This system of Jujutsu among the famous students who studied the art were Jigoro Kano, whose modern art of Judo and Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido. “Jiro” Masai Nakamura graduated from the 27th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1919. For his great knowledge and skill with martial arts lived a somewhat itinerant life, travelling the length and breadth of the country giving seminars in martial arts to soldiers and military officers. In 1937 he was promoted to major general and was commanding the 18st Infantry Brigade of the 3th Division during the Battle of South Guangxi in 1939. Early 1938 created his own style of Ju Jitsu who called すべての電源 Subete No Dengen Ryu (in English means all the power), influenced by the effective techniques of the ancestral martial art Pankration, that mixed with those of ju jitsu, being a worshiper of the Greek culture and courage. Some years after the Second World War where he lost his family, he went to Athens. In Greece he was teaching Jujutsu in a small house that had transformed in dojo, to martial arts enthusiasts, often of high social standing. However, sometimes in the small number of students who had, when was watching that these guys had true interest to learn jujutsu, accepted boys from not very high social level. Nakamura was against to deliver colored belts, because as he was saying “the colors been invented for economic reasons”. The students should have patience and perseverance to learn, because “the knowledge is not in the belt but in the mind”. His strict character, as a worthy son of one of the last samurais, did not allow arrived many students at the Nakamura´s dojo and very few of them arrived to get the black belt. Among his students just Petros Nikolaou, Dimitrios Deligiannis and Vassilios Katselis obtained the valuable black belt. Of them three, only continued with Jujutsu his uchi deshi Vassilios Katselis, whoever in 1983 went away from Greece to live in México. A year later, one of the pioneers of Jujutsu in Europe, "Jiro" Mashai Nakamura died at the age of 87 years leaving an enormous emptiness in the family of the true jujutsukas. His wisdom and the great arsenal of fighting techniques standing and on ground, locks and chokes will be forever etched in the memory of all those who are continuing with this martial art. By Akira Sugihara