Preface vii

1. What Is Budo? I
2. The Transmission of Budo by the Japanese 5
3. The Problem of Budo for Foreign Practitioners 11
4. A Key to Budo 17
5. Ki in Japanese Culture 21
6. The Japanese Conception of Ki 25
7. The Content of Combat in Kendo 31
8. Space in the Arts of Combat 37
9. Ki, the Guide to Budo 45
10. Ma, the Spatial Concretization of Ki 55
11. Detect and Conceal 59
12. The Combat of Ki 63
13. The Meaning and the Value of Combat 69
14. The Classical Methods of Developing Ki in Combat 75
15. The Convergence of Two Approaches 87
16. Kiko and Combat 93

Conclusion 97