Chapter 6: Japan

Question 1

The term ___-_____ refers to Japanese martial arts in general.

Answer 1

bu-jutsu

Question 2

Japan, though not the _____ of karate, has had, since hoary antiquity, a tradition of rather exotic military arts.

Answer 2

birthplace

Question 3

While China was a focal point that radiated “culture” to the outside “barbarian” world, many of the Japanese bu-jutsu had their beginnings in the Japanese islands _____.

Answer 3

exclusively

Question 4

It is theorized that Buddhism, the great continental philosophy, was first brought to Japan by bands of Chinese and Korean travelers in the _____ century.

Answer 4

sixth

Question 5

Buddhist _____ among various shipwrecked castaway groups inadvertently brought a weaponless self-defense system to the Ryukyu Islands.

Answer 5

monks

Question 6

There is every likelihood that the neophyte Japanese _____ were taught a form of self-defense for use during their travels.

Answer 6

priests

Question 7

A further theory exists that during the seventh and fourteenth centuries, when it was common for Japanese _____ to study Buddhism in China, they learned ch’uan fa along with their studies and brought knowledge of this art back to their homeland.

Answer 7

youths

Question 8

In Japan ch’uan fa (pronounced “KEM-po” in Japanese) was not known by many people outside of the Buddhist _____ until the latter part of the sixteenth century.

Answer 8

priesthood

Question 9

_____, it seems, is the precursor to a form of ju-jutsu and is believed by many Japanese writers to be the earliest prototype of a native bare-handed fighting art, though in some forms of yawara a pocket stick is used.

Answer 9

Yawara

Question 10

_____ _____, the founder of modern judo, stated in 1888 that of the various arts instrumental in judo’s development, _____ played the most vital role.

Answer 10

Jigoro Kano

ju-jutsu

Question 11

Kano stated conclusively that the Chinese form of fighting without weapons (i.e., ch’uan fa) differs so radically from ju-jutsu that there is no chance of their interconnection, and that therefore the leverage and seizing arts are of _____ origin.

Answer 11

Japanese

Question 12

Although Okinawan karate “officially” entered Japan with the famous Gichin Funakoshi in 1915, several Okinawan karate instructors are known to have traveled and taught in Japan as early as ____.

Answer 12

1904

Question 13

Full-scale public initiation to karate occurred in 1915 when Master Funakoshi demonstrated karate before a large assembly of interested Japanese spectators at the _____ in Kyoto.

Answer 13

Butokuden

Question 14

The entry of karate into Japan in the early twentieth century started a new era in Japanese _____-jutsu.

Answer 14

bu

Question 15

Many “new” forms of martial ways appeared that had evolved from traditional styles. One of the most famous of these was _____.

Answer 15

aikido

Question 16

A number of prominent karate masters (e.g., Chojun Miyagi, Choki Motobu, etc.) from the _____ secured teaching assignments as instructors of karate at a few of Japan’s most notable _____.

Answer 16

Ryukyus

universities

Question 17

Chojun Miyagi lectured and taught his art at _____ Imperial University in 1928.

Answer 17

Kyoto

Question 18

In 1932 Miyagi became a “coach” in the newly formed karate department of _____ University in Osaka, often lecturing to karate and boxing clubs located throughout the city.

Answer 18

Kansai

Question 19

By the time war reached the Japanese citizenry on a universal scale in 1937, karate had received a general introduction to the populace as a whole, but was much more of an integral part of both _____ and _____ life.

Answer 19

university

military

Question 20

Morihei _____ developed aikido after World War II.

Answer 20

Uyeshiba

Having mastered kendo and ju-jutsu in his youth, Uyeshiba felt that there could be an art designed to control one’s ambitions and desires along with martial training.

Question 21

Uyeshiba claimed his art was primarily a vehicle to _____.

Answer 21

enlightenment