The early history of judo is inseparable
from its founder, Japanese polymath and educator Kanō Jigorō(嘉納 治五郎,
Jigoro Kano, 1860-1938), born Shinnosuke Jigorō 新之助 治五郎,
This status continued into the subsequent Edo period,
as the Tokugawa bakufu continued to promote the works of the Kanō school as the officially sanctioned art for the shōgun,
daimyōs, and Imperial court.