The present study aims to examine the teaching concepts of Hironoshin Furuhashi by conducting an analysis of swimming textbooks which were published in 1952 and 1966. The following conclusions were obtained.
Furuhashi won worldwide fame in competative swimming, but, he had the viewpoint not only to swim, but to expand the popularity of swimming by expanding the swimming population.
Through all movement (leg and arm, breathing, combination, start, turn of the freestyle), the swimming textbooks written by Furuhashi has no description about above-ground exercises and uses a large number of figures, lists, and photographs, that occupies a large portion of the page.
These results suggested that Furuhashi did not instruct merely swimming and practice methods, but emphasized that readers could learn swimming voluntarily and could reflect on their own swimming method as being important.
