budō

See also: budo

English

Noun

budō (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of budo.
    • 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 10:
      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.
    • 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.
    • 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):
      The 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.

Japanese

Romanization

budō

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶどう
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ブドウ