
Rōnin
A solitary figure, that is how you lived your life, like the modern rōnin you had become, alone with your art...
A solitary figure, that is how you lived your life, like the modern rōnin you had become, alone with your art...
To Evariste Galois, for his mathematical intuition of the symmetry of an ambiguous world.
Kan geiko is a pared-down, rigorous, even repetitive training, designed in such a way as to emphasise the essential, and which traditionally takes place on 11 January, at the time of Kagami biraki...
Aikido is about the eternal return of the same thing : movement doesn't vary according to circumstances, it obeys a single law, a geometric law that governs the action.
It was a cold January day in 1986 in Iwama, and Master Saito was filling the bottles of sake that would warm up the uchi deshi after training...