aikidō

See also: aikido, Aikido, aikidó, and aikidô

English

Noun

aikidō (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of aikido.
    • 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 21:
      There are solo exercises in aikidō and some weapons kata (forms), but these do not constitute the bulk of training for aikidōka as they do for practitioners of other martial systems.
    • 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):
      It is the principle of nonresistance that distinguishes aikidō from other forms of budō.
    • 2015, Ellis Amdur, “Atemi: Striking to the Heart of the Matter”, in Dueling with O-sensei: Grappling with the Myth of the Warrior Sage, revised and expanded edition, Wheaton, Ill.: Freelance Academy Press:
      Their martial arts were each seamless, expressing profound moral aims congruent with the highest aims of aikidō.

Japanese

Romanization

aikidō

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あいきどう
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.