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autonomous, while other instructors, such as the Machado brothers
(nephews and students of Carlos Gracie), refer to their systems as Brazilian,
as distinct from Gracie, jiu-jitsu.
Thomas A. Green
Joseph Svinth
See also Jûdô; Wrestling and Grappling: Japan
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Budô, Bujutsu, and Bugei
Editorial note: Bracketed number codes in this entry refer to the list of
ideograms that follows.
The meaning and usage of the terms budô, bujutsu, and bugei as appellations
for the martial arts of Japan are subjects of considerable confusion
and misinformation among practitioners and aficionados of these arts—
Japanese as well as Western. Among modern authorities in Japan the terms
have acquired a more or less conventional usage adopted mainly to facilitate
discussion of the multiple goals and purposes of combative training:
Bujutsu (warrior skills [1]) describes the various Japanese martial disciplines
in their original function as arts of war; budô (the warrior’s way [2])
denotes the process by which the study of bujutsu becomes a means to selfdevelopment
and self-realization; and bugei (warrior arts [3]) is a catchall
term for the traditional Japanese military sciences, embracing both bujutsu
and budô.
It must be stressed, however, that such precise usage is modern—
adopted for analytical purposes—not traditional. Projecting it backward
into earlier times, as much literature on Japanese martial art does, is
anachronous.