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ercy Longhurst wrote the epilogue for "The Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu" an old book written by av S. K. Uyenishi (read more about it by clicking here). Longurst also wrote this book (click here).

Longhurst's book is almost identical to the aforementioned book by Uyenishi. The drawings are copies of the pictures in Uyenishi's book. It seems kind of strange that there are no explanations to this fact. It is however highly unlikely that Longhurst would have gone through with issuing these books without some sort of arrangement with Uyenishi.

The two books shown here are also identical from what I can see. The plain green one is a hard cover book, and it's printed in the US. The lower one is paper-back, and printed in the UK. Probably they were intended for these two markets individually.

Percy Longhurst was an English wrestler (most probably a "catch-wrestler", that is: freestyle). He became acquainted with Yukio Tani og S. K. Uyenishi through W. E. Barton-Wright (the person who introduced ju jitsu to England in the early 1900's). Longhust started "The British Ju Jitsu Society" together with three other gentlemen, and became Tani's pupil. In turn Longhurst introduced the art to various police departments (The London Metro Police amongst them).

It is hard to tell the exact date these books were printed. No year of printing can be found in any of them. It is probable that they are printed some time around 1930. In chapter 1 it says: "It is no more than thirty years ago since Ju-Jutsu found its way into England;..."

Every bit of information, and each and every technique is the same stuff you will find in the book by Uyenishi: "The Text-book of Ju-jutsu".

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