Background
Gendo Tsuboi was born on the 9th of January, 1852 in Chiba, Japan.
Mr. Gendo Tsuboi, lecturer of the Tokyo Academy of Music
Mr. Gendō Tsuboi, professor of the Higher Normal School
玄道 坪井
Gendo Tsuboi was born on the 9th of January, 1852 in Chiba, Japan.
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.