Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of budo.
It is the principle of nonresistance that distinguishes aikidō from other forms of budō.
2013, Wolfgang Dietrich, translated by Wolfgang Sützl and Victoria Hindley, “Budō-aikidō”, in Elicitive Conflict Transformation and the Transrational Shift in Peace Politics (Many Peaces), Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 5 (Movement-oriented Approaches to Elicitive Conflict Transformation)2 more examples
Despite the apparent oddness of this characterization of the art of the warrior as a practice of love, Ueshiba insisted that his perspective faithfully represented the essence of traditional budō.
2003, Michael L. Raposa, “The Way of Spiritual Harmony”, in Meditation & the Martial Arts (Studies in Religion and Culture), Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 10The same approach was maintained through the 1990s, when the guidelines for budō in school encouraged kendō practice as a way for every individual to ‘be rich in humanity and strong in body’ but also emphasised the idea of Japanese budō as a unique component of their we-group identity.
2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists)
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