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Alex Fitzgerald wrote:
Lol....but the concepts of budo have not.
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Rather than merely echo Peter's reply, I thought I might point anyone who is interested to a fine piece of scholarship that addresses that notion in a fairly rigorous and sometimes surprising manner:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Taming-Sam.../dp/0674868099
To that, I would only add that while the concept of "michi" or "do" has a long provenance, the opening of those arts to broader social circles, while not entirely unknown, particularly during the very late Tokugawa era, didn't really become a mass phenomenon until the Meiji era, and both functional and conceptual change are associated with that opening.
Hope this helps.
FL