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- From: stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com (Todd I. Stark)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: question about history of different styles
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.183933.448@PA.dec.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:30:27 GMT
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- yfkimura@seas.gwu.edu (Yusuke F. Kimura) writes...
- >Where does Aikido come from? What are the origins of MA's in Japan?
- > Obviously China, but from what styles or combinations of styles?
- > Could anyone clear this up? Thanx a lot in advance.
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- That's not obvious at all. In fact, it sounds almost like you're
- implying that the medieval Japanese weren't bright enough to have come
- up with anything original on their own. :-) (That's a joke).
-
- I believe there were significant influences on Japanese culture
- from the older culture of China, especially during the T'ang Dynasty and some
- others, but the Japanese culture also (as you no doubt are aware) has some very
- distinctive features of its own that show up in all of their arts,
- including martial arts. Japanese Zen has some flavor to it that is not found
- in most other interpretations of Ch'an. And Japanese classical weapons
- schools (which are a large part of the background of Aikido) were very
- unique in many ways.
-
- Aikido is derived from the original contributions of Ueshiba Morihei,
- his esoteric religious prefererences and socio-political leanings,
- the Takeda Daito-Ryu Aikijutsu lineage, and other classical Budo/Bugei
- training of Ueshiba.
-
- Does that help ?
-
- kind regards,
-
- todd
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