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JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション Y-kun was my junior during my university days. He belonged to the Japanese Shorinji Kempo club at the university. The reason we began practicing together was that one day he saw us training in the gymnasium, came over to talk, and from then on joined our practice. This morning, his face suddenly came to mind after a long time, and I felt like writing down some memories of him. Y-kun was a very small man. I think...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.12.01 Mon 01:38
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション At that time, I was nearly out of both training funds and living expenses, and mentally I was under severe pressure. My life was being shaken to its very foundations. Even so, since I had disciples, I had to continue teaching them. One day, I arranged to do sparring practice with disciple A—who had been with me ever since my return to Japan—at the parking lot of an abandoned house near my home. &n...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.30 Sun 12:24
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション In 2007, I went to China as a Japanese language teacher and taught at universities and high schools. While in China—the very home of Chinese martial arts—I interacted with masters from various schools. However, I never encountered anyone who matched the level of the teachers I had studied under in Japan. My first teacher in Japan often told me, “China has more fakes.” And indeed, the tea...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.30 Sun 09:14
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション When I greeted the elderly man in Chinese with “Ni hao”, he also spoke to me in Chinese. It is characteristic of Chinese people to casually strike up conversations even with strangers. Basically, the Chinese are a people with strong curiosity. It seemed that he, too, was a martial artist. Then, the two of us began speaking in Chinese. “Which style of kungfu have you practiced?” &ld...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.30 Sun 03:07
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション On the training day of the martial arts circle I host, in a large park, I was teaching my disciple the correct way to make a portable makiwara (a substitute for the karate makiwara, made by taping together two Japanese boys’ magazines). After finishing the hand-makiwara, we immediately began practicing thrusts using movements similar to Tongbeiquan. At that moment, a middle-aged Chinese ma...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.30 Sun 00:04
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション About forty-two years ago, I had the chance to watch a sparring match between Mr. Takahara and Mr. Ishibashi, who appeared in ”Lightning Speed”. Normally, they only practiced with us juniors to help us improve, and it was rare for the two of them to face each other. So when we realized they were about to spar, everyone stopped their own training, held their breath, and watched their encounter with great anticipation. ...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.29 Sat 11:10
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション Hakata Station concourse About fifty years ago, a man holding a second-dan rank in karate was walking through the concourse of Hakata Station when a deranged vagrant suddenly attacked him with a firebrick. Instinctively, the karateka dropped his hips, lifted the attacker’s right arm with a left palm strike, and delivered a right mid-level punch to the solar plexus. The vagrant collapsed on the spot, doubled over in pa...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.29 Sat 07:12
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション During the winter break at the university where I worked, I returned to Japan for a short stay. While taking care of various errands entrusted to me by people in China, I also visited the dojo of Master Y of Kobayashi-ryu Karate, who had been looking after my disciple while I was in China. Twice a week, I received instruction in jujutsu from him. *Kobayashi-ryū Karate is a traditional Okinawan style of Shōri...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.29 Sat 00:06
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション On the morning of Devlin’s last day of practice with the kendo club, I secretly taped a sheet of paper to his door bearing Miyamoto Musashi’s famous poem: "Ander the crossing sword the lies hell itself. Step forward, and you may find paradise." As an avid reader of The Book of Five Rings, he was greatly inspired by this poem. And indeed, events unfolded exactly as the poe...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.28 Fri 12:22
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション First, I had him practice what in kendo is called chakkin-shibori (squeezing a towel with the whole body by applying strength to the little fingers of both hands), teaching him to put power into his little fingers. Chakkin-shibori Putting strength into the big toes was no problem, since he had already practiced shikko (knee-walking) in aikido. Shikko Next, I had h...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.28 Fri 09:38
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