Secrets of The Samurai - Book I

Secrets of The Samurai
Oscar Ratti & Adele Westbrook



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Lời giới thiệu


Cuốn sách võ đạo kỳ diệu - Secrets of The Samurai - là một trong nhiều tác phẩm nổi tiếng của võ sư - họa sĩ Oscar Ratti . Cuốn sách này chứa đựng những gì được coi là đơn giản và cô đọng về cả một nền võ học tinh tế - Võ đạo Nhật Bản . Trong một quá khứ binh lửa , các chiến binh Samurai đã chiến đấu dựa trên nền tảng gì , học luyện tập những gì , cơ sở nhận thức và tinh thần Bushido bắt nguồn từ đâu - Secrets of The Samurai sẽ trả lời cho bạn tất cả những câu hỏi trên và còn nhiều hơn thế . Tác phẩm là sự hợp tác của thầy Oscar Ratti và thầy Adele Westbrook - giờ đang là cuốn sách gối đầu cho nhiều thế hệ võ sinh các võ phái Nhật Bản trên toàn thế giới .

Một thời gian sau khi cuốn sách Secrets of The Samurai ra đời , các võ sư thuộc hiệp hội Võ đạo Brazil đã lấy nền tảng từ đó để xây dựng một loạt bài viết tổng quát về các hệ phái võ thuật của Nhật Bản - Các thầy đã sử dụng hình minh họa trong các cuốn sách của thầy Oscar Ratti như - Secrets of The Samurai & The Code of Samurai .

Do hiện nay Tuấn Anh rất bận , nên chưa thể dịch ra tiếng Việt , rất hy vọng các cô chú , anh chị & các bạn có thể dịch rồi đăng lên diễn đàn . Hôm nay xin được gửi tới các thành viên những bài viết bằng tiếng Anh này .


Bộ bài viết sẽ được hệ thống thành 4 tập bao gồm :

Book I :

1 - Koppo Jutsu
2 - Kumi Tachi
3 - Bo Jutsu
4 - Kempo
5 - Iaijutsu
6 - Jo Jutsu
7 - Aiki Jujutsu


Book II:

08 - Hojo Jutsu
09 - Tanto Jutsu
10 - Kobo Jutsu
11 - Kabuto no Bujutsu
12 - Kusari Fundo
13 - Ba Jutsu
14 - Kankyo Jutsu


Book III :

15 - Batto Jutsu
16 - Kenjutsu
17 - Tameshigiri
18 - Heiho
19 - Taiso
20 - Ketsugo
21 - Suriken Jutsu


Book IV

The Samurai Creed & The Bushido


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Chúc mọi người luôn nhiều niềm vui ! :)


Hagakure:laugh:

Book I :


1 - Koppo Jutsu

2 - Kumi Tachi

3 - Bo Jutsu

4 - Kempo

5 - Iaijutsu

6 - Jo Jutsu

7 - Aiki Jujutsu

1 - Koppo Jutsu

It translated literally as approach of the bones, Koppo is the peculiar form studied in the arts that aim at the attack to the articulations.

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It studied in the Medium Age by the most traditional schools, the Koppojutsu, or simply Koppo, can be translated in a version of adaptation for the West as attack to the bones.

Characteristic of the Aikijujutsu and Jujutsu, the Koppo is, doubtless, one of the matters of bigger efficiency studied inside the curricular grille of the Bujutsu.

Inside the present time, we find Sussumo Motoshima as big expert of the traditional forms guarded in sequences of forms named like Kata.

Motoshima Sussumo is a son of Chieko Motoshima, daughter of Noriyuki Mizumatsu, big holder of the technical one of the Koppojutsu.

Mizumatsu was famous in its province by organize the forms and determine-them in a nomenclature that did not exist.

Second Motoshima Sensei, healthy to the all ten kata that constitute of ten each sequences, that correspond to the most frequent attacks of the epoch.

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Illustrations: Secrets of the Samurai, Oscar Ratti / Adele Westbrook, Tuttle, 2001

2 - Kumi Tachi


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Kumi Uchi is it breaks that studies the form of seize (imobiliza�ões and strangulations). Old enough art, is a fight that aimed at lead the adversaries upon soiling. It is one of the richest arts in movements and exercises, however healthy a lot guarded by the big masters, since were of big efficiency for the development of the binomial body.

The origin of the Kumi Uchi can be considered as to more primitive of all. Some masters say that his origin was marked when a primitive man, infuriated with some another, advanced in its direction attack-him. And as still they were strangers the first their, martial techniques reaction was "seize" the enemy. However its practical as art of alone war was arise later.

Even so, his techniques were based in the fight through the clinch, being enough developed to the long one of the years. One of his characteristics more strong also is linked to the aggressiveness, since its purpose outside always for ends of war, and not as sport.

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The name of the art can be translated into the Portuguese of the following form:

Kumi: embrace, hold

Uchi: it be

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Complex enoughart, that represents to older form of battle with clinch. Even inside the Kumi Uchi, by his immensity of techniques and imobiliza�ões, healthy studied with enough tenacity the standing fight, however with a connotation more connection to the clinch. The Kumi Uchi is, inside the TaiJutsu, to older, elaborate through clinches, projections, keys and strangulations, for the end of the battle of the form more quick possible.

The geography of the Japan always was an important point in the reasoning of the development of the techniques (very injured geography, country with 80% of his territory with mountainous formation). That shows that there was a big tendency of the battles will grapple and will elapse in the ground, doing with that the nature became a weapon in potential.

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In the regions of Hokkaido, certain villages arrived to the extreme of will utilize his training with wild animals, as bears, that had its nails trimmed, and the jaw tied. The idea of the development of a technique exceed the size and the weight of the opponent was constant. The need of the improvement brought to the present days it evolved technique applied us battles to short distance .

3 - Bo Jutsu

The art of the utilization of the cane and others instruments of similar wood as weapons represent the point of transition of the approaches of battle armed for the done not arm.

The wood, natural or polite and in all the possible forms always has served to the man in the implementation of her capacity of fight. She provides, otherwise the first, certain one one of the first stuff used by the man in the manufacture of mortal weapons.

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In the Japanese dimension of the art of battle, however, the wood was not (at least during the was feudal) a primary stuff utilized in the manufacture of weapons, but the iron and the steel. However, it constituted a fertile, although secondary, dimension whose strategic potential was explored, developed and systematized to several approaches will begin it take form, each complete approach and cash inside and outside of her same.

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Because of the fact of them will be comparatively less risky for the practical one that a sheet, the cane and several other weapons of wood usually were utilized in dojo of training of schools of bujutsu, where the techniques of long weapons and swords were taught.

With the time, the relative use of the weapons of wood developed so well that, the real battle using the cane or the sword of wood, was committed by warriors (even in auto-defense against an unjust and potentially lethal attack being the adversary armed or not).

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The steel weapons wood replicas job or of iron enabled a lethal result done not desire to be minimized and, in cases of exceptional ability, eliminated barely that entirely that chance of accident.

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That fact helps it explain the popularity of the cane between the members of the social class that loathed the idea of the spilling of blood of his companions.

Priests, monks, traveling, common persons and to poets used the cane or another instrument of wood, many of the which are used until today with several purposes. To the warriors competed in test of ability utilizing these weapons.

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According to the dictionary, the cane is any thing lengthened of square range.

Specifically, inside the military dimension of the Japanese culture, however, the cane or a similar instrument of wood be used primarily in the training of the bushi in techniques that, in real battles, would involve the use of a sheet of mortal steel. Like this, they find itself so much specializations in the use of the as much as cane will go specializations with the utilization of weapons, therefore the wood replaced barely that all they in the epoch.

The relation between them two the cane and the weapon that he represents was so intimate that to technical and the strategy of a was virtually indistinguishable of the another one in a symbiotic exchange. In this way, a swordsman would be able to employ the curved cane imitating the format of a sword with the same precision of a sheet.

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The techniques (jutsu) created by the effective job of these weapons of wood, however, were substantially the same maids when used with the iron or steel. Each a, however, also it developed independently of the discipline with the which was related, producing his own bequeathed and body of literature.

To first specialization, naturally is represented by the art of the long cane with the thickness of the Bo - the Hasaku-bo or the Rokushaku-bo.

To Monday is represented by the art of the Jo or bo or still Han-bo.

One of the private approaches in the use of the Jo or Bo is a that is practiced us present days, not as much as real art of battle - Jojutsu - but with the disciplines that employ the form of the Jodo.

In the kaze in the Ryu Bugei so much the Jo as much as the Bo possess in his particularity the preservation of the its initial form, or be, in the practical one of arts of war (jojutsu and bojutsu).

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4 - Kempo

It says a dictation that, in the time of a petal of rose fall to the ground, a practitioner of Kempo should carry out more of thousand movements.

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Kempo is the art come back for the aggressiveness and corporal strengthening, coming of the observation of movements of the animals, that became that as a form of natural fight of aggressiveness. The philosophy of the Kempo is going to seek the naturalness of the body in union with its aggressiveness.

This forms violent of corporal fight was developed for ends of war, and by that subsequently was prohibited in the Japan, stayed restricted only to the villages that had like purpose to practical martial as war art environment.

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Following the same plot of the Aikijujutsu, the history of the sprouting of this practical martial itself loses in the time, but believes-itself that his origin date of more of 2 thousand years behind. It arrived to the Japan by influence of the Chinese, as environment of personal defense and warlike.its practice meaning come back for the use of the hands like defense, showing the first concepts of its philosophy.

The name of the art can be translated into the Portuguese of the following form:

Ke m - fists

Po - approach, model


The "approach of the fists" objective the survival to all cost, being considered by many, a practice of extreme violence, since animals movements drift, as the of the fight by the survival between the ferocious you will be of the forests.

Is able to the juncture naturalness imagine and ferocity of a tiger that seeks his alive sustenance, as by example an antelope. It was by means of inspiration of that perfection of the nature that the big masters of the antiguidade sought to develop the body for the preparation faced with the war.

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Records and rumors show that the art was developed through the native old techniques of Bodhidarma (daruma san, as is known in the Japan), that was led through the cultural intermarriage between Japan and Chinese. His techniques of training put the man completely prepared it absorb all of the impacts, doing with that all the part of the body became a weapon in potential.

Similar to the Kumi Uchi, the nature always was a very strict form for strengthening and muscular tone, important factor for the war. His practitioners used to crush small bundles of bamboo for the strengthening of the fists.

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5 - Iaijutsu

Iaijutsu is the art of unsheathe the sword, practiced with the techniques of battle, that go being taught during the training. It practiced today as an automatic device of booty, favors the self-discipline, the improvement of the coordination, and improvement the posture. In the majority of the styles, the real techniques of cut are valid but, for the practical one of the Iaijutsu with ends of defense or of war, the accuracy is absolutely necessary.

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Some versions affirm that The arts of the sword that know today began, probably, with Iizasa Choisai, the founder of the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu. That school included the use of many weapons, as the spear, and the throwing of knives.

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A big part of his curriculum consisted of the quick booty and in the immediate use of the sword in the self-defense. This section of his study is called Iaijutsu.

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Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu (1542-1621) has the reputation of to have received a divine inspiration that drove to the development of its art, call Muso Shinden Jushin Ryu Battojutsu.

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Batto signifies simply "cut with the sword". The point in common to both schools, as in many other schools of sword that treated predominantly of the cut with the sword, was that that art be practiced in the form of katás.

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As then it is able to a martial art be really efficient, being practiced through kata, against an imaginary opponent?

That it is a more difficult a lot question than looks. The problem begins to the be tried it defined 'efficient', and upon considering that 'turned out' is desired. Naturally, in the kata there is not no opportunity of itself try his technical in the repeated battle times because, as in the kenjutsu, there is not no opportunity of modify his movements in answer to those of its opponent.

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Under the point of view dThe martial arts of the modern world, is easy treat superficially the arts of traditional sword and of criticize-them as improper, simply because do not we walk for the street carrying a sword.

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The martial artist has as should avoid the battle. That be explained there are thousands of years by Sun Tzu in the "Art of the War" and later by masters of the strategy. The martial artist that coaches entirely and correctly, driven by a sensei, will develop an ability of recognize difficult situations and of avoid-them before be transformed in a problem, will minimize the conflict, or will maintain a state of body that offer not opportunities for an aggressor. This is the sense of the Iaijutsu.

The kanji (character) 'I' also can be well-read as 'itte' and 'ah' like 'awasu' in the phrase 'awasu of the neither of the kyu of the itte of the neither of Tsune' that signifies: "Wherever do you go and what want that you do, is prepared always". It be prepared is not alone have a state of lie aware, but have him coached rigorously so that, if necessary, a decisive technique can be used for finalize a conflict. With a sword, naturally, the cut is a mortal. Therefore, the study of the Kata is very difficult.

6 - Jo Jutsu

Rekishi in the Jo - History of the Cane

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Believes-itself that the art of the shortest cane was developed by the big swordsman Muso Gonosuke, there are approximately four centuries behind, after a defeat in fights by the famous one Myamoto Musashi, that utilized swords of wood (bokken, bokutô) for their battles.

According to the historical tradition, Gonosuke withdrew for a temple Shinto and, after long period of arduous training, of a lot purification and meditation in the art of the cane, developed a noticeable domain about about the Jo. His style was named of Shindo Muso Ryu, was then that challenged Musashi for a news I confront. The approach created by Gonosuke enabled to enter the strong posture of the style of Musashi.

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Gonosuke Sensei practiced firm and continuously until develop the basic strikes that resulted in 20 techniques, that later were combined and optimized, being created the basic forms (Kata).

The Katas basic of the Jo Jutsu, that subsequently came it be part of the Jo Of The (name adopted by some schools), include the utilization of sequências with other weapons, as Bo (long cane), Bokken and so much (knife).

7 - Aiki Jujutsu

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Aikijujutsu, martial art practiced formerly by the noble Japanese, by his wealth of knowledge and difficulty. It loses itself in the history the epoch or period of the sprouting of the art, since the Japan old did not exercise to practical of the written one, restraining the past knowledge barely between the relative of the villages. Itself says that his origin comes from the art of the sword, the Kenjutsu, when in the battles there was not other solutions for the defense that not the concept of the Sukima (empty). The Sukima represents a basic foundation of the Aikijujutsu, and is going to do with that an adversary (initially carrying the sword Katana) is not going to reach his objective, barely using the concepts of the four elements, water, fire, air and land. From this I begin the first movement arose that today constituted the Aikijujutsu.

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Very oldart, based in the harmony and in the utilization of the known, interior energy as Ki. The Ki is the beginning that governs the universe of the Aikijujutsu, focusing the studies in his conduction and addressing. Enough it used by old and women, by his wealth and efficacy of the utilization of the not; some it consider like the art of fight without fight. It is based in the utilization of keys, sprains and imobiliza�ões, of way it disable the enemy seeking the harmony of the body.

The name of the art can be translated into the Portuguese of the following form:

Ai: harmony, love

Ki: energy, vital force

Ju: flexibility

Jutsu: art

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The AikiJuJutsu, since the organization by Minamoto in the Yoshimitsu, and to even before, had many distinct roads what resulted in different styles, as the Daito Ryu Aiki JuJutsu, founded by Sokaku Takeda, and also the Aiki JuJutsu studied in the Kaze in the Ryu what differs of that in very by the influence of the arts of war in the old peoples, the ainos what originated the people Shizen.

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The Aikijujutsu of Takeda came of the lineage of the Minamoto, that organized the technical Aiki and founded him, approximately in the séc.XV. The art develops through the circularidade, such as in the universe, therefore the practitioner is a "sun", that mantém his enemies in its orbit, without never leave of lighten-them. However, always after the day, comes the night, that conceals the practices more strong and strict come back to the war, where what is found we call Hidoi.

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The Complexity of his system it consecrated like an art of noble customs. His difficulty is found exactly in the interior harmony of the practitioner, not being left lead for any feeling or emotion that affected to its technical.

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By that, the Aikijujutsu became a big practice of the strategists of the Kaze in the Ryu Bugei .

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Secrets of The Samurai
Oscar Ratti & Adele Westbrook



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Lời giới thiệu


Cuốn sách võ đạo kỳ diệu - Secrets of The Samurai - là một trong nhiều tác phẩm nổi tiếng của võ sư - họa sĩ Oscar Ratti . Cuốn sách này chứa đựng những gì được coi là đơn giản và cô đọng về cả một nền võ học tinh tế - Võ đạo Nhật Bản . Trong một quá khứ binh lửa , các chiến binh Samurai đã chiến đấu dựa trên nền tảng gì , học luyện tập những gì , cơ sở nhận thức và tinh thần Bushido bắt nguồn từ đâu - Secrets of The Samurai sẽ trả lời cho bạn tất cả những câu hỏi trên và còn nhiều hơn thế . Tác phẩm là sự hợp tác của thầy Oscar Ratti và thầy Adele Westbrook - giờ đang là cuốn sách gối đầu cho nhiều thế hệ võ sinh các võ phái Nhật Bản trên toàn thế giới .

Một thời gian sau khi cuốn sách Secrets of The Samurai ra đời , các võ sư thuộc hiệp hội Võ đạo Brazil đã lấy nền tảng từ đó để xây dựng một loạt bài viết tổng quát về các hệ phái võ thuật của Nhật Bản - Các thầy đã sử dụng hình minh họa trong các cuốn sách của thầy Oscar Ratti như - Secrets of The Samurai & The Code of Samurai .

Do hiện nay Tuấn Anh rất bận , nên chưa thể dịch ra tiếng Việt , rất hy vọng các cô chú , anh chị & các bạn có thể dịch rồi đăng lên diễn đàn . Hôm nay xin được gửi tới các thành viên những bài viết bằng tiếng Anh này .


Bộ bài viết sẽ được hệ thống thành 4 tập bao gồm :

Book I :

1 - Koppo Jutsu
2 - Kumi Tachi
3 - Bo Jutsu
4 - Kempo
5 - Iaijutsu
6 - Jo Jutsu
7 - Aiki Jujutsu


Book II:

08 - Hojo Jutsu
09 - Tanto Jutsu
10 - Kobo Jutsu
11 - Kabuto no Bujutsu
12 - Kusari Fundo
13 - Ba Jutsu
14 - Kankyo Jutsu


Book III :

15 - Batto Jutsu
16 - Kenjutsu
17 - Tameshigiri
18 - Heiho
19 - Taiso
20 - Ketsugo
21 - Suriken Jutsu


Book IV

The Samurai Creed & The Bushido


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Chúc mọi người luôn nhiều niềm vui ! :)


Hagakure:laugh:

Hagakure!

Bài này và bài đầu khác nhau chỗ nào vậy?:blink: :blink: :huh: :huh:

Chú Aiki ,

Bài cuối cùng và bài đầu tiên giống hệt nhau về nội dung , cùng mục đích , nhưng khác nhau về vị trí .

Thông thường khi thành viên đăng nhập 1 Topic mới , sẽ được kích hoạt tới ngay bài cuối cùng của chủ đề .
Do đó bài cuối cùng này giúp cho thành viên có được cái nhìn bao quát toàn Topic dù họ ở Last Post . Như vậy dù đọc từ trên xuống Top Post hay từ dưới lên Last Post thì sẽ mọi người đều dễ dàng nắm bắt được thông tin tổng quan .

Hầu hết các bài cháu viết đều bố cục như vậy :

Bài mở
Thân bài
Bài mở

Chú Aiki còn thắc mắc chi ko :laugh: