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Re: Oh My Gawd - did no one notice this?
Well, fwiw - the old jujutsu schools would have (and did) highly resent being put in one basket. Torite is not kogusoku is not yaware is not jujutsu. Some, like Yagyu Shingan-ryu, which would be in this group (yoroi kumiuchi) could easily see themselves as kenjutsu/bojutsu - sogo bujutsu.
So three years later, the Butokukai is suppressed by the Allied occupying forces, and the old koryu men, aside from merely trying to survive, no longer care about something as un-natural as the European Union (which I also hope will be remembered as a bad dream in the not too distant future - right, Greeks and Germans are exactly the same!) - so they ignored it.
And the term aikido, which seemed natural enough to Ueshiba's art, was a free-floating term that no-one was using. Whereas aikibudo, aikibujutsu, whatever are terms that are "suffixes" - appended onto another term - - - - --like - - - -- - - - - - - - Daito-ryu.
Aikido is a stand-alone term like judo or kendo. Perfect for the purpose of cutting a historical connection. Who really thinks of Tenjin Shinyo-ryu or Kito-ryu in regards to judo. Some of judo's most famous kata are actually deblooded (no gokui) wholesale incorporations/thefts from those previous ryu. To be sure, Kano, menkyo in both systems could appropriate them if he liked - but deblooded they are. And this is a subject that has only been recently re-discussed.
Ellis Amdur
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