September 21, 2011

Comparison between Karate and Kendo or Judo

例えば,若者が剣道を選ぶか柔道を選ぶか空手を選ぶかは,単に好き嫌いの個人差かもしれない。ただ,柔道や剣道は,中学校や高校での体育授業や部活動として広く普及し,そのため知名度も高く競技人口も多い。結果として現代において,その活動は試合のためのスポーツ,武道ではなく純粋にスポーツの1つとしての色合いが強くなりすぎている。もちろん,柔や剣とは何かを考え,自ら追求し,生徒の指導に盛り込んでいる優れた武道家も中にはいるだろうが,多いとは思えない。これに対して,空手はやや趣が異なる。空手は,柔道や剣道ほど学校教育の中で普及しているとは言えないために,同じ武道系スポーツよりも,洗練されていない雰囲気を持っている。別の言い方をすれば,剣道や柔道のように高度に組織化・体系化されたスポーツよりも,神秘的な武道性を残しているように見えるかもしれない。

For instance, whether a young person select kendo, judo, or karate may depend on his/her personal likes and dislikes. But, judo and kendo are popularized as classes or extracurricular activities in Junior and high school, and then very famous and have a lot of players in Japan. As a result, at the present day, the activities of judo and kendo are sports for competitions, that is, they have too much characteristic as not budo but one of pure sports. Of course, there are some, but probably not much sensible budo-ka (martial artists) who think what yawara (ju) or ken is, search after it, and teach it to their students. On the other hand, karate has a little difference situation from judo and kendo. Karate has less sophisticated atmosphere than any other martial artistic sports, because it seems not to prevail among school education so much as judo and kendo. In other words, karate may seem to keep having more mysterious budoism than any other highly organized and systematized sports like judo and kendo.

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