Elements of teaching, institutionalisation and characteristic of judo in "Judo Kodokan Review" (1950-1969)

Background. Studies of judo and elements of the institutionalisation and characteristic of judo are usually carried from the perspective of the history of sport or the history of physical culture. Aim. The aim of the study is elements of teaching, institutionalisation and characteristic of judo, described in the journal “Judo Kodokan Review” published between 1950 and 1969. Method. Tomasz Goban-Klas's method of content analysis of mass media was used, as along with system analysis using the Atlas.ti program, and a qualitative content analysis. Results. 1) Issues relating to the teaching of judo are presented in the journal on the basis of both text and illustrative material. The increase in the number of such material over the years under discussion is worth noting, 2) The results present the relationships between the five identified categories according to which almost all of them occurred in the journal in combination with two or three others too, 3) The results of the qualitative analysis presented in Figure 3 indicate the specificity of relationships between thematic categories related to judo as a sport and judo as a martial art (However, due to the limitations imposed by the authors' framework of this article, only five selected results will be presented). Conclusions. While some aspects of the institutional development of judo have already been studied by other researchers, the novelty of this study is to develop a particularly interesting