Shugyo-kun (Discipline for Practice)
At the end of the practice, all the students chant “Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Shugyo-kun”. In the Setagaya Branch, each student takes the lead shugyo-kun on a rotating basis. Foreigners are no exception and they seriously memorize the words which are difficult to understand even for Japanese. At first, all they can do is memorize and raise […]