Sanshiro Murao

Sanshiro Murao was born in the United States in 2000 and competes as a Japanese judoka at 180 cm. I cannot resist noting the name first: Sanshiro is the name every Japanese person associates with judo itself, thanks to the classic novel and Kurosawa's film. That is a heavy thing to be handed at birth, and he has actually lived up to it rather than being crushed by it. His division is one of the deepest in world judo, where nobody survives on a single strength. You need power, speed, and technical range simultaneously, and the margin between a medal and an early exit is often one grip exchange. Being born abroad adds something I find genuinely interesting. He carries the traditional Japanese framework while having grown up seeing judo partly from the outside. He is still only in his mid-twenties. The interesting part of this career has not happened yet.

Name (English)

Sanshiro Murao

Name (Japanese)

村尾三四郎

Reading

むらお さんしろう

Born

August 28, 2000 (age 25)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

Origin

United States

Height

180 cm

Occupation

judoka

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanshiro%20Murao
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E5%B0%BE%E4%B8%89%E5%9B%9B%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58419997

Tags

• judoka

Last updated

2026-08-07

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