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Phase Ten of shiho nage
Chapter III - The Kajos in Budō #4 - Law No. 1 (一法): shiho nage - ikkyo
A rule seems to emerge which is this: for the irimi principle to be manifested, all Aiki techniques must be executed by moving in four square steps. This is the meaning of the ideogram 方 in 四方 (shiho), and shiho nage is simply an application that illustrates this general rule particularly well.
