There
are several Aikido techniques that move directly into the attack, avoiding
collision, and emerging behind the attacker. There is a similar teaching in the
Shinkage-ryu sword school. The poem reads:
Furikaburu
tachi-no shita-koso jigoku-nare
Mi-o-sutetekoso
ukabu se-mo-are
Beneath
the raised sword/ is like hell,
Throw
yourself away/ there may be a way out
“It
is like Hell standing beneath a raised sword, be willing to sacrifice yourself,
there may be a way out.”
One
can imagine the poet watching a leaf flow downstream only to be pulled into the
rapids and then appearing later below the falls. Could this be “irimi-ho,” the
entering method?
A poem that
reflects the fundamental element of martial art is probably the following by
O’Sensei Morihei Ueshiba:
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