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    This document provides information about Japanese martial arts terminology. It begins with background on the Shukokai style of karate, founded in 1949, and the founding of the Seiken Ryu Karate Association in 1975. It then discusses Japanese pronunciation and provides the Japanese terms for common martial arts vocabulary with English translations, including techniques, stances, punches, kicks, and blocks. It concludes with notes on pronouncing Japanese terms accurately.

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    This document provides information about Japanese martial arts terminology. It begins with background on the Shukokai style of karate, founded in 1949, and the founding of the Seiken Ryu Karate Association in 1975. It then discusses Japanese pronunciation and provides the Japanese terms for common martial arts vocabulary with English translations, including techniques, stances, punches, kicks, and blocks. It concludes with notes on pronouncing Japanese terms accurately.

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    Japanese/English Martial Arts Dictionary

    Our style of karate is called Shukokai. This is Japanese for the study of change. It is sometimes
    translated as “the way for all”.

    This style was founded in 1949 by Chojiro Tani (1920-1998) and was developed from another style
    of karate called Shito-ryu which was founded by Chojiro Tani’s teacher Kenwa Mabuni (1889-
    1952). It was originally called Tani-ha Shito-ryu.

    Our Association is called the Seiken Ryu Karate Association. Seiken Ryu is Japanese for the school
    of the two-knuckle fist. It was founded in 1975 in Tottington, Greater Manchester by Steve Yates,
    the father of our present chief instructor, Chris Yates.

    Japanese vocabulary and pronunciation

    Japanese is very easy to pronounce. The consonants and their combinations all sound more or less
    as they do in English (but remember the g is hard as in Graham rather than soft as in George). There
    are only five vowels, which are pronounced like this.

    a sounds like the a in father


    i sounds like the e in be
    u sound like the oo in zoo
    e sounds like the e in pet
    o sounds like the o in god

    The vowels can combine however, and the ones you will need for the vocabulary below are as
    follows.

    ai sounds like the ie in lie, for example Hai (yes)


    ae sounds like the y in my, for example Mae geri (front kick)
    ui sounds like the ooey in gooey, for example Tetsui (hammer fist)
    ea sounds like the ear in fear, for example Keage (snap)
    ei sounds like the ay in bay, for example Sensei (teacher)
    oi sounds like the oy in boy, for example Oizuki (step punch)

    When you see two of the same vowels together it just means that you need to lengthen the sound
    slightly, for example Juu (ten).

    It is also worth knowing that when some Japanese words are shouted or spoken forcefully they lose
    the final vowel. This is why ichi sounds like the English word “each” rather than something like
    “eachy” (which is how it would sound in ordinary conversation). If you want to know more, there is
    some extra information in the notes below the vocabulary list.

    Numbers
    ichi = one roku = six
    ni = two shichi = seven
    san = three hachi = eight
    shi = four ku (kyuu) = nine
    go = five juu = ten
    English Japanese

    General Words
    Teacher Sensei
    Senior student (assistant teacher) Senpai (sounds like sempai as an n before a p sounds more like an m)
    Begin Hajime
    Bow Rei
    Formal kneeling Seiza
    Sparring Kumite
    Right Migi
    Left Hidari
    Mat Tatami
    Stop Yame
    Ready/ focus Kime (both physical and mental)
    Yes Hai
    Turn Mawate
    Response (not literally) Oos
    Project Ski
    Thrust Kekomi
    Snap Keage
    Two knuckle/front/fore- fist Seiken
    School Ryu
    Open or empty Karai
    Hand Te
    Forearm Ude
    Way Do
    Techniques Jitsu
    Lower part of body Gedan
    Chest/stomach area Chudan
    Head area Jodan
    Training area Dojo

    Punches
    Punch Tsuki (becomes zuki when combined with some other words)
    Strike Uchi
    Reverse punch Gyaku zuki
    Step-punch Oi zuki
    Leading hand punch Maeken zuki
    Spear-hand Nukite
    Back-fist Uraken
    Elbow (strike) Enpi uchi (sounds like empi as an n before a p sounds more like an m)
    Ridge-hand Haito
    Hammer-fist Tetsui
    Palm-heel Teisho
    Single knuckle strike Ippon kenii
    Lunge punch Junzuki
    Short/close punch Ura zuki
    Double U-punch Yama zuki

    Blocks
    Block (to receive) Uke
    Sweep Harai (becomes barai when combined with some other words)
    Downward sweep/down block Gedan barai
    Inside block Chudan uke / Uchi uke / Uchi ude uke
    Rising block Jodan uke / Age uke
    Inside knife-hand block Shuto uchi uke
    Outside block Soto uke / Soto ude uke
    Outside knife hand block Soto shuto uke
    Supported block Morote uke
    Cross block Juji uke
    Lapel-break double block Kakiwake uke

    Kicks
    Kick Geri
    Front kick Mae geri
    Roundhouse Mawashi geriiii
    Side kick Yoko geri
    Back kick Ushiro geri
    Back roundhouse kick Ushiro mawashi geri
    Crescent kick Mikazuki geri
    Foot sweep Ashi barai
    Knee-kick Hiza geri
    Blade/edge of foot Sokuto

    Stances
    Stance Dachi
    Front fighting stance Zenkutsu dachi
    Cat stance Nekoashi dachi
    Straddle (horse) stance Shiko dachi
    Tension stance Sanchin dachi
    Ready stance Yoi
    T/Crossed-feet stance Kosa dachi
    Crane stance Tsuri ashi dachi
    Heel step Tsuri komi
    Step through Suri ashi

    Once you have learned the vocabulary and the pronunciation, another thing you can do to sound
    more Japanese is to try and give each syllable the same stress and duration. A syllable in Japanese is
    made up of a vowel on its own or a vowel with a consonant (or consonant cluster) in front of it. In
    English we always stress one of the syllables in a word, but in Japanese all syllables are treated
    equally and take the same amount of time to say.
    So to say a word such as back roundhouse kick in Japanese, you need to give each of it syllables
    more or less the same amount of importance: u shi ro ma wa shi ge ri.

    Perhaps the hardest thing you could do is try to learn to pronounce the Japanese r sound. It isn't
    really the equivalent of an English r sound at all. In fact it is exactly half way between an English r
    sound and an English l sound. When you say these sounds in English, you should be able to feel
    your tongue touching the front of the top of your mouth for the r and then feel it move more
    towards the middle for the l. If you can get your tongue to make the same sound while putting itself
    midway between the r position and the l position, you will be saying a perfect Japanese r. Because
    it's half way between the two, this is why we hear Japanese (and Chinese) speakers saying l when
    they mean r and the other way round.
    i The kara in karate is the same word as the kara in karaoke. It means empty: empty hand, empty orchestra (i.e.
    without a voice).
    ii When you see two consonants together you don't repeat them, you just pause very slightly before saying the (single)
    consonant, like a tiny stutter: so ippon is pronounced i-pon.
    iii The mawashi in mawashi geri is derived from the same word as mawate (turn). They both mean “to revolve”.

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