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Ted Ehara wrote:
Like a musician who transposes music from one key to another, Morihei Ueshiba changed the concepts that appeared in Onisaburo Deguchi's The Reikai Monogatari (Tales of the Spirit World) into the practices that would become known as Aikido. ... That is just transposition.
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George S. Ledyard wrote:
I still don't get the point... why the "just"? as if his contribution to creating something new was somehow smaller than it was...
But before O-Sensei, you could not find a form of Budo that was like what O-Sensei created; not in the outer form or in the practice.
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This theme and the nature of Ted's and other's objections addressed here reminds me of a topical scene from the film "Amadeus." Emperor Joseph of Austria is expressing some diplomatic displeasure on hearing Mozart's opera in Vienna.
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Emperor Joseph: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?
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Obviously, O Sensei had the same problem.