Re: Source of the naming conventions?
"Ikkajô is a technique in which ..."
Shioda Gôzô, Shioda Yasuhisa, translated by David Rubens: Total Aikido, The Master Course, Tokyo, New York, London1996, page 82
Practicing with yoshinkan yudansha and reading books of Shioda Gôzô never made me think to not regard ikkajô, nikajô, sankajô ... as certain techniques. The use of these terms in Yoshinkan to me seems clearly different from the use in Daitô ryû or koryû where these word refer to segments of the curriculum.
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