A
AI: harmony, meeting
ASHI: foot, leg
ASHI BARAI: sweep (of the legs)
ATEMI: strike theoretically delivered to vital points of the human body.
AYUMI ASHI: normal walking step movement: one leg after the other
B
BATTO JUTSU: art of drawing the sword (ancient form of IAIDO)
BO: staff BOJUTSU: art or technique of the staff
BOKKEN: wooden sword
BUDO: way of war, martial art
BUSHI: warrior, samurai
BUSHIDO: code of honor of the BUSHI
C
CHUDAN: middle level
CHUDAN TSUKI: punch to the abdomen-plexus height
D
DAN: degree, rank
DO: way
DOJO: place where the way is studied, martial arts practice hall
E
ERI: collar
G
GEDAN: low level
GERIKERI: kick
GI: training outfit wrongly called
KIMONO GO NO GEIKO: hard training
H
HAKAMA: traditional pleated pants worn in all classical budo
HAMMI: abdominal region, vital center of man
HARAGEI: art of hara, art of the belly
HENKA: change (of posture without moving the feet)
HIDARI: left
HIJI: elbow
HIZA: knees
I
IPPON: one point, one score
ITI: one
IYAMA: name of a dojo
IZEN: meditation, contemplation
J
JUKU: school
JUKUJO: pupil, student
JUJI: cross, X
JUDO: gentle way
JUTSU: art, technique
JUTSU RYU: traditional school
K
KAI: group, association
KAKATO: heel
KAMA: sickle
KAMADE: rice harvesting tool
KATA: form, shape, fixed choreography
M
MAWASHI GERI: circular kick
MAWATE: turn around
MAWATTE KUDASAI: please turn around
MEN: head
MUNE: chest
N
NAGARE: flow, movement, the principle of budo
NAGE: throw
NAGINATA: long pole weapon, curved blade
NAGINATA RYU: traditional school of naginata
NAMI: wave
O
OMOTE: front, face, surface
ONO: axe
OYA: parent, father, ancestor
OTOMO: companion, assistant
R
RAN: rebellion, revolt
RANAI: inside the house
RYU: style, tradition, school
RYUHA: traditional school
RYUUKYU: old name of the Okinawa islands
RYUTSU: circulation
S
SEN: before, previous
SENSHU: instructor, teacher
SEIZA: sitting posture
SENSHU KAKARI: instructor’s responsibility
SHIHO: four directions
SHINAI: practice sword
T
TAI: body
TAI SABAKI: body displacement
TAI SEN: contest of strength
TAI TOKETA: body locked
TAI-TOBI: body leap
TAI-TSUKI: body thrust
U
UKE: block, defense
UCHI: strike, hit
UCHI DESHI: student who lives in the dojo
UKEMI: art of falling safely
UME: plum tree
USHIRO: back
W
WAZA: technique
WAZA ARU: good technique
WAZA WAZA: technique on purpose
Y
YAKUSOKU: promise, commitment
YOKO: side, horizontal
YORI: from, closer
YUKI: courage, bravery
YUKIO: male first name
Z
ZANSHIN: remaining mind, state of alertness
ZAZEN: sitting posture of meditation