{"id":22277,"date":"2018-11-27T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/?p=22277"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:24:35","slug":"brave-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/27\/brave-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan rugby history: The Brave Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Like this post? 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Phil McGowan, curator at the World Rugby Museum, looks behind the scenes of Japan&#8217;s surprising love affair with rugby.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rugby history in Japan: The Brave Blossoms<\/h2>\n<p>In 1853 the arrival of Commodore Perry\u2019s black ships in Edo Bay heralded the end of over two centuries of self-enforced Japanese isolation. Witnessing how far foreign technology had developed, a new spirit of modernisation emerged in Japan that would result in the Meiji Restoration in 1868.<\/p>\n<p>Before then, Westerners and Western culture and technology had already begun to arrive, initially around the treaty ports of Yokohama and Kobe. Football was first played on the bluff in Yokohama in 1863 by British expatriates. By 1866 Yokohama Foot Ball Club, playing mostly rugby-rules, had become the first football club in all of Asia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22282\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-half-width wp-image-22282\" src=\"https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-Exhibition-header-720x400.jpg\" alt=\"World Rugby Museum, Rugby World Cup Japan 2019\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-Exhibition-header-720x400.jpg 720w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-Exhibition-header-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-Exhibition-header.jpg 768w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-Exhibition-header-564x314.jpg 564w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-Exhibition-header-390x217.jpg 390w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Japan-Exhibition-header-510x284.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a9 World Rugby Museum, Twickenham<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A hand-drawn picture published in <em>Graphic Magazine<\/em> in 1874 depicted a rugby match taking place under Mount Fuji while a collection of traditionally dressed Japanese watched in a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Father of Japanese Rugby&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>But the Japanese themselves would adopt the game in 1899 as part of the cultural exchange that was taking place between Britain and Japan. Responsible for this development were two childhood friends who had gone to school together in Yokohama before studying together at Cambridge University. Edward Bramwell Clarke, though born in Yokohama, was the son of British expatriate, and\u00a0Ginosuke Tanaka is now remembered as the \u2018Father of Japanese Rugby\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It was they who invited their students at Keio University in 1899, to learn the rules of the game. Once established at Keio the game spread to Doshisha, Waseda, Kansai and Kanto ARC Universities.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">From Japan to Britain<\/h2>\n<p>In 1923, the second son of Emperor Taisho, Prince Chichibu took an interest in rugby and had the rules explained to him by a promising player and coach named Shigeru Kayama. In 1925 they visited Britain where the Prince enrolled at Oxford University, while Kayama trained and played with Richmond and Harlequins.<\/p>\n<p>On their return to Japan they founded the Japanese Rugby Football Union with Prince Chichibu as Patron and Ginosuke Tanaka as President. In 1930 the first All-Japan side took to the field to face British Columbia, coached by Shigeru Kayama.\u00a0The Brave Blossoms were born.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">New exhibition: The history of rugby in Japan<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22279\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-half-width wp-image-22279\" src=\"https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-720x540.jpg\" alt=\"World Rugby Museum, Rugby World Cup Japan 2019\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-564x423.jpg 564w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-390x293.jpg 390w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-780x585.jpg 780w, https:\/\/insidejapan.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2051-510x383.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a9 World Rugby Museum, Twickenham<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new exhibition at the World Rugby Museum:\u00a0<em>Brave Blossoms: the History of Rugby in Japan,\u00a0<\/em>tells the story of rugby in Japan &#8211; from establishing educational and diplomatic links in the late Edo to early Meiji period, to rebuilding Japan in the post-War period, and right up to the preparations for the Rugby World Cup in Japan 2019.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s new research and objects from around the world, including\u00a0the first artistic depiction of rugby in Japan in 1874; a\u00a01904 jersey from Keio University, the oldest rugby jersey in Japan; archival material relating to Prince Chichibu; the story of the blossom as related by Demi Sakata; and exclusive interviews with Eddie Jones about Rugby World Cup 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with the World Rugby Museum&#8217;s latest developments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wrugbymuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wrugbymuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wrugbymuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and find Phil McGowan on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_philmcgowan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Do you have tickets for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan? 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