Since we're all banging on Kodokan Goshin Jutsu I stumbled across this. The excerpt is below and here is the link to the site.
The overall article is excellent but the comment below pertains directly to Goshin Jutsu.
http://www.aikidojournal.com/?id=2138
".......In 1956, Kodokan Judo added an eight, and perhaps final, kata, Kodokan Goshin Jutsu, to the Official Kata of Kodokan Judo. A committee composed of twenty-five senior Kodokan Judo yudansha, chaired by Sumiyuki Kotani (Kodokan Judo Judan, Tenth Dan, and deshi of O’Sensei), developed the Kodokan Goshin Jutsu over a period of three years. Kenji Tomiki (Kodokan Judo Hachidan, Eighth Dan, and Aikido Hachidan and deshi of O’Sensei) served as a special technical adviser to the committee and author of an instructional book on the kata, Goshin Jutsu, published in 1958. As one would expect, an examination of Kodokan Goshin Jutsu reveals the dominant influence of Aikido in the formulation of the kata.36
In the preface to Tomiki’s book on the Kodokan Goshin Jutsu, Risei Kano, then president of the Kodokan, made the following comment.
“Kano Shihan made every effort possible to complete Judo as a modern physical education, but could not yet systematize the self-defense aspect of Judo which is contained in the classical Jujutsu even though he did study it deeply. The fact he was very much concerned about the self-defense aspect of Judo is clearly seen from the fact that he sent some of his students to Sensei Ueshiba to study Aiki-Jujutsu ….”
The comment of Risei Kano confirms the impact of O’Sensei and his art, Aikido, on Jigoro Kano....."
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