Japanese Terminology

[Blackcatbonz]

Here is a list of terms used in Japanese dojo's. I will update it from time to time. I will try to include the kanji whenever possible.

Martial Arts Dictionary
Bujutsu no Hyakkajiten 武術の百科事典

Numbers:
1. ichi - 一
2. ni - 二
3. san - 三
4. shi or yon - 四
5. go - 五
6. roku - 六
7. shichi or nana - 七
8. hachi - 八
9. ku or kyu - 九
10. ju - 十

Arts:
Kempo - 拳法, karate(empty hand) - 空手, karate(china hand) - 唐手,

Aikido - 合気道, Jujutsu - 柔術, Judo - 柔道,
Sei Kosho Shorei Kai - 真古松将励会, KyokuShin-Kai - 極真会

Stances - Tachi 立ち
parallel - heiko dachi 平行立ち
feet together - heisoku dachi 閉足立ち
horseriding - kiba dachi　騎馬立ち
backward (leaning) - kokutsu dachi 後屈立ち
forward (leaning) - zenkutsu dachi 前屈立ち
3 wars - sanchin dachi 三戦立ち
cat foot - neko ashi dachi 猫足立ち

Hand techniques - Te Waza 手技:
fist - ken 拳
handsword -　shuto 手刀
spearhand - nukite 貫手
ridgehand - haito 背刀
hammerfist - tettsui ken 鉄槌拳
palm heel - shotei

Blocking Techniques - Uke Waza 受け技
rising block - age uke 揚げ受け
knifehand block - shuto uke 手刀受け
outside in middle block - soto chudan uke 外中段受け
reverse (inside out)middle block - ura chudan uke 裏中断受け, or uchi ude uke 内腕受け



more to come...

[Miyu]

Very handy on the numbers - thanks!

[Blackcatbonz]

if ive made any mistakes....please correct me

[Brother John]

if ive made any mistakes....please correct me

OK.... but you'll still need to do pushups.


Your Brother
John

[benjp]

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10. ju - 十
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Hi Shawn,

Another great topic.

In our dojo, we used to use ju for ten until we had a visiting Japanese exchange student explain that we should use 'to'. We've been using it ever since. I'm not sure why..

I studied Japanese for two years in High School, so I was pleasantly surprised that Kosho Shorei Ryu places such emphasis on learning the spoken and written (and a whole slew of other Japanese cultural items).

However, for all of the kanji and martial specific terms learned we have yet to cover proper ettiquette. I've often wondered if a seminar on the basics of Nihongo (i.e., sentence structure, ettiquette, kana recognition) would be a good idea. I almost started on post on the very topic..

Regards,

Ben

P.S. I wish my browser supported kanji . I love finding kanji for words I know and also finding the Japanese for kanji I come across..

[Blackcatbonz]

using "to" is in reference to something....like saying "ten things" would be "to".
for general counting ive have always used ju. ive had several japanese teachers , attended school with japanese classmates and thats how we always did it.
learning japanese sentence structure definitely requires a teacher of japanese.....someone who is or has been immersed in the language.
when i decided to really start learning japanese i picked up a book......i realised that while well intentioned, gaijin that write books for gaijin to learn the language structure do so with western thinking in mind. i didnt learn this lesson until my japanese language and culture teacher pointed it out to me.

as far as etiquette goes, i think there should be classes that devote time to teaching it. there is nothing wrong with learning something about a culture other than our own, i also think it helps people to get into the mindset of why things are done a certain way.
when i studied shiatsu, our first few months of classes were concentrated on learning the shiatsu "kata" or full body treatment.....any questions that arose during these classes were answered with, "later".
this is how things are done in a lot of japanese schools......first learn the form, and then learn why you are doing it.
many times mistakes are made or left out entirely because the teacher lacks the knowledge.

one of the reasons i enjoy kosho is because they put an emphasis on learning the cultural arts and bring something more to the student besides punching and kicking.

i dont know what kind of browser you are using, but if its internet explorer you need to install east asian language support off of your windows xp cd-rom.

[gakusei]

I have never hear of fist = ken. Ken = sword along with many other meanings.

kobushi or genkotsu is for fist. kobushi also means feudal warrior or samurai.

[Blackcatbonz]

i should have added that.....i used Ken because of the way it is used in Kempo, tettsui ken, etc. that way, for the people who didnt know, they understand that Ken is sometimes used for fist.

[kroh]

Nice post and very usefull. I think I have some links to other sites that have Japanese terminolgies posted.

The only one I can think of from the top of my head is from the Danzan Ryu web site (http://www.danzan.com/HTML/VOCAB/dzrvocab.html) but I am sure that a net search would foster equally good results.

Regards,
Walt

[Blackcatbonz]

Nice post and very usefull. I think I have some links to other sites that have Japanese terminolgies posted.

The only one I can think of from the top of my head is from the Danzan Ryu web site (http://www.danzan.com/HTML/VOCAB/dzrvocab.html) but I am sure that a net search would foster equally good results.

Regards,
Walt

thanks, Walt.
im hoping to make it pretty comprehensive, including terminology that you would find in may different systems.

[kroh]

Cool, if I find more I'll post them.
Regards,
Walt

[dokusan]

Here is a list of terms used in Japanese dojo's. I will update it from time to time. I will try to include the kanji whenever possible.

Martial Arts Dictionary
Bujutsu no Hyakkajiten 武術の百科事典

Numbers:
1. ichi - 一
2. ni - 二
3. san - 三
4. shi or yon - 四
5. go - 五
6. roku - 六
7. shichi or nana - 七
8. hachi - 八
9. ku or kyu - 九
10. ju - 十

Arts:
Kempo - 拳法, karate(empty hand) - 空手, karate(china hand) - 唐手,

Aikido - 合気道, Jujutsu - 柔術, Judo - 柔道,
Sei Kosho Shorei Kai - 真古松将励会, KyokuShin-Kai - 極真会

Stances - Tachi 立ち
parallel - heiko dachi 平行立ち
feet together - heisoku dachi 閉足立ち
horseriding - kiba dachi　騎馬立ち
backward (leaning) - kokutsu dachi 後屈立ち
forward (leaning) - zenkutsu dachi 前屈立ち
3 wars - sanchin dachi 三戦立ち
cat foot - neko ashi dachi 猫足立ち

Hand techniques - Te Waza 手技:
fist - ken 拳
handsword -　shuto 手刀
spearhand - nukite 貫手
ridgehand - haito 背刀
hammerfist - tettsui ken 鉄槌拳
palm heel - shotei

Blocking Techniques - Uke Waza 受け技
rising block - age uke 揚げ受け
knifehand block - shuto uke 手刀受け
outside in middle block - soto chudan uke 外中段受け
reverse (inside out)middle block - ura chudan uke 裏中断受け, or uchi ude uke 内腕受け



more to come...

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