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柔術「ソフト武道」の秘密

柔術「ソフト武道」の秘密

Ju-Jutsu is a kind of Japanese hand-to-hand fighting, the main principle of which is the following: not to go to direct confrontation but by yielding the attacks of the opponent direct his actions until the latter is at last entrapped. Ju-յutsu is translated from Japanese as “soft techniques” (in Japanese “ju” means soft and “jutsu” means technique, tools). This naming should be perceived figuratively, as the attacks of jujutsu can be hardly called soft. Besides “ju-jutsu” formerly other names were also used, such as “taitsuju”, “kogusoku”,...