Acknowledgements
Kiki, Christine and Isabelle Correa,
Charlemagne Delaporte, Christian Demarre, Jean-Marc Douguet,
Aurora Doz Claver, René Duran, Nicolas Frühauf, Gilles Grelet,
Dr Toshio Hirano, Werner Knoll, Sylvain Leroy, Michel Luguern,
Xavier Martel, Sol Suffern-Quirno, Manou Tournoux.

ISBN X-XXXXX-XXX-X

interviews with Igor Correa, conducted by Rudolf Di Stéfano and Laurent Bruel

followed by Junomichi no kotoba, edited by Loïc Le Hanneur, with the collaboration of Igor Correa

entries written by Rudolf Di Stéfano and Laurent Bruel

technical review by Michel Luguern and Werner Knoll

Japanese language review by Céline Bruel

Igor CORREA Born in 1919, he discovered judo in Paris in 1942, joining the very first French practitioners of the discipline. Very early on, he became a teacher, took responsibility for several dojos, and was later led to participate in the highest bodies of French judo, foremost among them the Collège des Ceintures Noires, of which he remained one of the leading members for twelve years. He subsequently continued the teaching of original judo under the name “Junomichi”, and directed the International Autonomous Federation of Junomichi from 1974 until his death in 2000.

Rudolf DI STEFANO Born in 1970. After practising judo for fifteen years, he discovered the Judo Club du Marais in Paris in 1992, where he reformed his practice in order to adopt Junomichi, the original judo taught there by Igor Correa. Following the latter’s death, the practitioners of the Judo Club du Marais founded the Étude collégiale du Marais in Montreuil, department 93, where Rudolf Di Stéfano still practises today. He is also a Junomichi teacher in several dojos in the Paris region, and a member of the Technical Commission of the International Autonomous Federation of Junomichi. He has made a film on Junomichi entitled Des samouraïs.

LoÏc LE HANNEUR Born in 1955. He began practising judo in 1969. Awarded black belt in 1975 and became a teacher in 1981. He practised judo at the Kodokan in Tokyo for five years, and Junomichi with Igor Correa for twenty years. He has been a member of the Technical Commission of the International Atonomous Federation of Junomichi since 1994. He obtained a degree in Japanese at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, INALCO, Paris).

Laurent BRUEL Born in 1970. An editor by profession, he was introduced to Junomichi by Igor Correa, and continued its practice under the teaching of Rudolf Di Stéfano, in direct continuity with the interviews that gave rise to The Origin of Judo. He also practised judo in Japan, from where he brought back material that led him to collaborate with the illustrator Risto on a book entitled Notes on Sumo (Éditions Matière, 2007).