Iwama 1964

Morihiro Saito in slow motion, Iwama 1964. I wonder who the uke is.
Things that look diferent to me:

• 6:35 Uke initiates on shomenuchi ikkyo.
• 5:00 Sankyo ura looks different.
• 5:45 Very deep entry on shomenuchi nikkyo ura.
• 4:45 Seated pins on yonkyo (omote and ura).
• 1:50 A bokkken suburi (shomenuchi-kaitan-shomenuchi).
• 1:50 The 3rd bokken suburi as we know it today is missing.
• 1:18 Bits of 31 kata look different
• 0:49 The 17th movment (strike to the knee) is high.
• 0:28 The 30th movment includes a hasso element and consequently 31 becomes a right yokomen.
• 0:24 Haven't seen this nice flowing kata before

A short one

Everything is simple, nothing is easy.

Hanmi

Sankyo

Saito Morihiro applying a sankyo. The uke's hand should be attached to the sternum (breast bone), otherwise the technique is "easily" reversible.

Seiza 正座

Seiza is written with two Chinese characters. The character pronounced sei- means "proper, right, true," and by itself can be pronounced tadashii, meaning "just right" or "proper." The character -za means "sitting posture," and is written with an ideograph depicting people sitting on a raised platform under a roof.

Furyu

Cultural context

Something to keep in mind when reading Osensei:

"Prior to the late nineteen century and the introduction of Western worldviewes, liturgical and ritual systems centered on shrines and temples were the vehicles through which the Japanese conceptualized their universe, and they provided the only available terminology for questions of physical science or philosophy. For this reason, any effort to completely secularize bugei principles and concepts would do violence to the cultural context in which they originated."


- Legacies of the Sword, Karl F. Friday