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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
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション One evening, as usual, we were having a lively discussion about martial arts at the coffee shop when Devlin said, “May I ask you a question?” I replied, “Sure, go ahead.” He said, “Actually, when I’m practicing free sparring in the kendo club, I often get struck by a senior female member who’s about 4’11” tall (around 150 cm). She tak...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.28 Fri 00:07
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション When I first got to know Devlin, we would occasionally meet at a café and talk about martial arts—that was about the extent of our relationship. One evening, as we were talking about martial arts as usual, the subject turned to kendo practice. I asked him, “How’s practice in the kendo club? Are you enjoying it?” He replied, “Well, the senior members give me all sorts of a...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.27 Thu 17:17
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション After nearly fifteen years of working at a company, I was in my late forties. This time, I would like to share a memory of an American young man named Devlin, whom I happened to instruct in kendo. Devlin had an imposing physique, standing 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing about 198 pounds. He had practiced karate for five years in elementary school, Jeet Kune Do (the martial art founded by Bruce Lee) f...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.27 Thu 06:47
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション After that, the two of us continued our training, discussing one by one the problems that arose from the technical differences between kenjutsu and kendo, and resolving them as we went. Once we actually began practicing, we found that although there were indeed many differences between kenjutsu and kendo, we were also surprised to discover that they shared quite a lot in common. For example, techniques such as t...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.27 Thu 00:08
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション After closing down the dojo, I got by for a while working part-time jobs, and later found employment as a security guard at a building management company. I chose this job because I thought it would allow me to devote time to martial arts training and language study. Yagyū Shinkage-ryū In the same year I joined that company, I also began training in Yagyū Shinkage-ryū swordsm...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.26 Wed 18:44
JUGEMテーマ:ノンフィクション After the sparring ended, Mr. Nakamura spoke to me about many things from his own life. How he had been frail as a child and was bullied a great deal. How he began practicing martial arts because he wanted to become strong. How his girlfriend left him because he was too absorbed in martial arts. And how he had recently received an offer from his senior disciple in America to work there as an instructor. In many ways, his life seem...
無意識との対話 Dialogues between the conscious and unconscious | 2025.11.26 Wed 09:57
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