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Terms appearing across the site, with their graphs and working translations. Romanization follows the site conventions: modified Hepburn with macrons, pinyin with tone marks, and IAST for Sanskrit.
-no-jō (尉)
- Biyan lu (碧巖錄)
- 1128; T2003
- dí yìng (敵應)
- hostile or opposed correspondence
- e myō-jutsu (得妙術)
- dé miào shù, “marvelous technique
enpi-ken (燕飛剣)
- fudō (不動)
- immovable/unmoved
furyū no katsu (不立之勝)
ginmi no koto (吟味之事)
- gokui (極意)
- inner teaching
gokui shichijō (極意七条)
Gorin-ran (五輪攔)
gyakufu (逆風)
- hachibunzu (八分圖)
- eight-part circle diagram
Hakkō ichiu (八紘一宇)
- hari (ハリ)
- extension/stretching
hassun no nobegane (八寸の延がね)
- ikki-tō (一氣當)
- striking with one spirit
Jikishin-shōtō-ryū menjō (直心正統流免状)
- jitsu (實)
- substantial/solid
- jōju (成就)
- completion/accomplishment
- jūaku (十悪)
- ten evils
- jūbun (十分)
- fullness/completeness
kaboku (和卜)
kannagara no ōdō (惟神の大道)
- kasumi (霞)
- mist (posture
- katsu (かつ)
- resuscitation shout/revival cry
Katsu Kaishū no genten (勝海舟の原点)
- kedai (懈怠)
- TOCS p.243
ken tai yū (權躰勇)
kihatsu (起發)
- kiri otoshi (切り落とし)
- cutting-down counter
kiri otoshi no koto (切落之事)
kitō no koto (氣當之事)
- koto (事)
- matters
- Kuka (九箇)
- 9 tachi
- kyūjitai (舊字體)
- old character form
Kōhō Yokoshiba (広報よこしば)
- Kōjō Gokui no Koto (口上極意之事)
- beyond words
marobashi (転)
- Marubashi (転)
- rolling/tumbling [technique]
- Mazu Daoyi chanshi guanglu (馬祖道一禪師廣錄)
- X69n1321, in the Sike yulu 四家語錄
- meguru (旋)
- to turn around
menjō uragaki (直心正統流免状裏書)
- mokuroku (目録)
- catalogue scroll of transmission
- nanatsu-dachi (七太刀)
- possibly based on Shintō-ryū
- nittō (入唐)
- travel to China to receive knowledge
- Pang jushi yulu (龐居士語錄)
- X69n1336
pingchang (評唱)
- randori (乱取り)
- free practice
- ren (連)
- linking/sequential techniques
- ryūha (流派)
- school, tradition
Samantabhadra (普賢)
- san-sōō (三相應)
- さんそうおう
sangaku (参学)
Sarutobi (猿飛)
- sente (先手)
- initiative
- shiai (試合)
- contest
Shin no shin’in heihō menjō (真之心陰兵法免状)
- shinmyōken (神妙剣)
- divinely subtle/mysterious sword
- sunpō (寸法)
- measurement/proportion
- sān xiāngyìng (三相應)
- three line-resonances of a hexagram
Sōjaku no Koto (相尺之事)
sōtai no boku (惣躰之卜)
- ten-chi-jin (天地人)
- heaven, earth and mankind
- tome (留)
- finishing/stopping techniques
tome sandan no koto (留三段之事)
- Tuàn (彖)
- Judgement
tō (韜)
- ura (裏)
- back-hand, concealed
- ura-no-te-no-kata(chi) (裏の手の形)
- back-hand form
- uramen (裏面)
- reverse/hidden side
- wa (和)
- harmony
- wú yìng (無應)
- without response
xiāngyìng (相應)
yaegaki (八重垣)
- yǒu yìng (有應)
- has response
- zhèng yìng (正應)
- proper response
- Zutang ji (祖堂集)
- Sodōshū, 952; CBETA B25n0144
- ōwakizashi (大脇指)
- large short sword