Glossary

• Aiki-jô — staff
• Aiki-ken — sword
• Arigato gozaimashita — thank you (past tense)
• Arigato gozaimasu — thank you (present tense)
• Ayumi-ashi irimi — striding irimi
• Bokken — wooden sword
• Dojo — martial art practice area
• Funakogi undô — boat rowing exercise
• Furutama undô — breathing exercise
• Gokyô — fifth basic pin
• Hanmi — basic triangular stance
• Hanmi-handachi — attacker (uke) standing, defender (nage) sitting
• Happô — eight directions
• Happô-giri — eight directional cutting
• Happô-undô — eight directional exercise
• Henka-waza — turning one technique into another
• Ikkyô — first basic pin
• Ikkyô-undô — basic exercise
• Irimi — entering principle
• Irimi-nage — basic throw
• Jô — short staff
• Jô-tori — unarmed defense against a jô
• Kaeshi — reversal or counter
• Kaeshi-waza — counter techniques
• Kaiten — roll, spin
• Kaiten-nage — basic throw
• Kata — shoulder
• Kata-tori — shoulder grab
• Kata-tori men-uchi — shoulder grab and strike to head
• Katate-tori — one-handed grab to wrist
• Ki — universal life force
• Kiza — mobile seated position (on your toes with knees on the ground)
• Kokyû — breath, breathing
• Kokyû-hô — breathing and centering technique
• Kokyû-nage — breath throw
• Koshi-nage — hip throw
• Kote — back of the hand
• Kote-gaeshi — basic throw
• Kubi — neck, head
• Kubi-nage — head throw
• Kôhô kaiten — backward roll
• Mawari — rotation, surroundings
• Morote-tori — two-handed grab to wrist
• Musubi — binding, continuous contact
• Nage — defender (applies aikido technique)
• Nikyô — second basic pin
• Omote — front
• Onegai shimasu — if you please
• Randori — freestyle
• Rei — bow
• Ryôte-tori — grabbing both wrists
• Sankyo — third basic pin
• Seika-tanden — center of the body
• Seiza — formal seated position, kneeling
• Shihô — four directions
• Shihô-nage — basic throw
• Shômen-uchi — strike to front of head
• Suwari-waza — seated techniques
• Suwaru — to sit
• Tachi — live sword, standing
• Tachi-tori — defense against a sword
• Tachi-waza — standing technique
• Tantô — short knife
• Tekubi — wrist
• Tenchi-nage — standing throw
• Tenkai — 180 degree pivot in place
• Tenkan — 180 degree pivot with tenshin (a step back from one hanmi into its opposite), circular principle
• Tenshin — a step back from one hanmi into its opposite
• Tsugi-ashi irmi — sliding irmi
• Tsuki — punch or thrust
• Uchi — inner
• Uke — attacker (receiver of the aikido technique)
• Ukemi — receiving with the body
• Ushiro — behind
• Ushiro kubi-jime — choke hold from behind
• Ushiro ryôkata-tori — shoulders grabbed from rear
• Ushiro ryôte-tori — wrists grabbed from rear
• Ushiro ryôtekubi-tori — same as ushiro ryote-tori
• Waza — technique
• Yoko — side
• Yokomen — side of head
• Yokomen-uchi — strike to side of head
• Yonkyô — fourth basic pin
• Zenpô-kaiten — forward roll