The
Motobu-ryu Facebook page has an interesting post about Motobu Choki using the
archaic term "Kasumi-uchi"
instead of the modern "Haishu-uchi"
in Naihanchi. The page notes that the word "kasumi" was also used in
Japanese Koryu.
The
collage below is a quick overview of more classical Jujutsu styles using the
term "Kasumi" as a target
for Atemi.
First
of all, Kasumi 霞
literally means haze; mist. In a figurative sense it denotes „turbidity of the
eyes.“ It means becoming hazy, (the eyes) becoming turbid, (the view) becoming
blurred.
In classical
Japanese atemi/kyusho, it most often designates the right temple (Shin
Shindo-ryu, Tenshin Shinyo-ryu, Kashima Shinyo-ryu, Shindo Rokkai-ryu). The left temple
has a different name.
However,
in Kodokan Judo (founded by Jigoro
Kano), it means the left temple, and in Seigo-ryu it is given as the center of
the forehead between the eyes. In an anatomical sense
"Kasumi" was also identified the meeting point of the sutura
coronalis, sutura squamosa, sutura sphenofrontalis, and sutura sphenosquamosa. That
is, the meeting point of the temporal bone (os temporale), the sphenoid bone
(os sphenoidale), the frontal bone (os frontale), and the parietal bone (os
parietale) of the human skull.
I don't think this is a secret to
anyone these days and hope this clears things up a bit.
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