Hyozo Omori (大森 兵蔵, Ōmori Hyōzō, March 14, 1876 – January 3, 1913) was a Japanese physical education specialist who studied in America and married the American artist Annie Barrows Shepley. In Japan, they established Yurin En (友隣園; House of the Friendly Neighbor), which was a settlement house and leader in the Japanese playground movement. Omori introduced basketball and volleyball to the country and was the team manager at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in Sweden.
HyozoOmori (大森 兵蔵, ŌmoriHyōzō, March 14, 1876 – January 3, 1913) was a Japanese physical education specialist who studied in America and married the...
worked as a portrait painter and children's book illustrator. She married HyozoOmori, a Japanese exchange student, in 1907 and moved with him to Japan, where...
nights and he had problems with the local food. The Japanese team coach, HyozoOmori, was mostly bedridden due to tuberculosis and failed to give Kanakuri...
only Japanese passenger on the RMS Titanic's disastrous maiden voyage HyozoOmori: physical education specialist Kichimatsu Kishi: "Baron Kishi", oil developer...
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