Gendo Tsuboi

玄道坪井

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Gendo Tsuboi was born on the 9th of January, 1852 in Chiba, Japan.

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Gendo Tsuboi was a head teacher at Physical Education Teaching Centre, professor at Tokyo Normal Higher School, professor at Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School, honorary headmaster at Tokyo Women's School of Physical Education and Music.

He entered the educational field (1875) by first becoming a teacher at Tokyo Normal School and then of Miyagi English School. He was later appointed interpreter to an American health instructor, who had been appointed by the government to found a physical training school at Tokyo (1878). Taking deep interest in the institution he was appointed an instructor (1883), and a few years later was sent to Europe to study physical training institutes (1900). Upon his return became chief calisthenics instructor at Tokyo Higher Normal School.

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In "Playing Outdoors - Outdoor Exercise" (written jointly with Morinari Tanaka), published in 1885, introduces soccer as example of outdoor exercise. Item 17 in this book, "Football", is the first ever description of soccer to be written in Japanese, and with the original and revised versions going on to influence later physical education books, this leads to soccer gaining a place among physical education in schools.

Having been leader at the club, Tokyo Normal Higher School Association Football Club uses books Tsuboi brought back from Europe as reference and receives his opinions and proofreading in publishing "Association Football" (1903), and "Football" (1908). These books were the first specialist soccer books in Japan to explain soccer mechanisms in detail, and contributed to the spread of soccer in the country.

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