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| | Essays on Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Hatsumi Sôke’s Bujinkan Budô is put together from forms where one would put on armor and fight in the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States Period), before the occurrence of many so-called ryûha (schools) of martial arts. |
 | | While Hatsumi, in the video, was lecturing that “the thumb is very important,” I asked, “what does that mean?” Sôke said, “stick out your hand,” and the instant he took my hand, a sharp pain ran through my right thumb and without thinking, I yelled out. |
 | | Hatsumi, to receive techniques is to take a person in, to take in their whole being--in other words, if a person’s capacity for generosity and courage are not great, they will not be able to do it.’ An uke who selfishly tries to escape is not an uke. |
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