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Mataemon Tanabe challenged a new jujutsu master to the area - Kano Jigoro. His new jujutsu style had challenged several of the old style Jujutsu schools to contest and had beaten them easily.
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Something else I'am wondering about is I've read on various forums where some have pointed out that what Maeda taught the Gracies was actually Judo newaza and not Jujitsu, but Maeda used the term Jujitsu. I see from the above quote that Kano's Judo when it was new was viewed as a new style of Jujitsu. If that was the case then I'am thinking maybe Kano's "Judo" was still viewed as Jujitsu or a new style of it during the time Maeda went to Brazil and the use of the term Judo for Kano's new art wasn't as widespread yet? So this may expalin why "Gracie Jujitsu" was called that instead of it being called "Gracie Judo"?
So I guess the question is at what point did the term Judo become recognized exclusively as the term for Kano's new style of Jujitsu?