Jodo Videos

[tigergal]

I have two videos about Jodo, the art of the Japanese 4-foot staff, the only art that was known to have ever defeated Musashi Miyamoto, the greatest Japanese swordsman of all time.

These are Panther videos, starring Master Masayuki Shimabukuro. The first was opened and viewed once.

I am selling them for $35 each, $70 for both, OBO.

[JamesC]

the only art that was known to have ever defeated Musashi Miyamoto

Isn't that a subject of debate?

I'm interested in them, but unfortunately I am broke. It is hard to find material on it.

[Sabunym]

Musashi was never defeated.

[Guan Yu]

Don't believe it, Musashi can't be beaten! Only old age could've killed him, and it did.

[tigergal]

The fellow who invented jodo got beaten by Musashi and went and studied for a few years and went back and fought him again with the jo. He beat Musashi, but didn't kill him because Musashi had spared him when they fought years before. That's the story, anyway.

[JamesC]

Well i've heard it both ways.

It's something that we will never know for sure. Just like the Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man fight.

But Bruce won of course.

[Sabunym]

tigergal, sorry but your... WRONG! In the intro to Book of Five Rings, Musashi explains that he has never been defeated. If he was defeated once he would never have been called, The Kensei, or Swors-Saint of Japan.

[Kawika]

The story is a "Legend" thus no one is right, because there is so much supposition.
Legend goes that a Great Samurai (not necessarily/ but assumed to be Mushashi) did fight a Buddhist Monk from the Shorinji Ryu temple. These Monks Carried a Rakushaku (staff). The Monk originally lost the altercation, but was spared. He then went back to training at the Shorinji Temple (Shaolin) with disciples of Kong ryuji Chan Buddhism.
He returned a soundly defeated Samurai, but spared his life (more because they were pacifists then any). This was the reason that the Samurai feared the Tengu (heavens dogs warrior who were not pacifists). They carried a Rakushaku, like the Kongo Ryu ji preists.
But were believed to be Demons. This is may be why he could say he had not been defeated, because he was beaten by an ethereal being and not a human.
Remember it is legend, and there are inconsistencies in legends.
The staff system I believe is the system of The eight pointed spear (spear removed due to priests being pacifists). It projects in eight directions a number considered a significant number in the Kong Ryuji Shorin sect.
I believe it derives from eight hands lohan with modifications. It is interesting to watch the Okinawan/ Japanese translation of Chinese techniques.
Buddhism was new to Japan, while most Samurai practiced Shintoism. The Kongo sect was an assimilation of the two. I think the story is more about the bringing of the two groups together than Samurai or the Preist.
None the less, it is a Legend. :wink: