Bujinkan Taiken Dojo - Budo Taijutsu

Japanese Term - Rough or Common usage in Bujinkan Dojo

Aruki - Walking
Bokken, Bokuto - Wooden sword
Bo (Rokushakubo) - Stick (Six foot staff)
Budo/Bufu/Bujutsu - Martial Arts
Budoka/Bugeisha - Martial arts practitioner
Bujinkan - Place of the Divine Warrior
Bujinden - Name of the Hombu Dojo
Bushi - Samurai
Bushido - Way of the Warrior
Dakentaijutsu - Striking art
Daijodan - High sword positon
Daito - Longer Japanese sword
Dan - Blackbelt grade - levels from 1 to 15
Densho - Written transmission
Dojo - Training Hall/ Place
Fudoshin - Immovable /Unshakeable mind or heart
Ganseki Nage - Throwing a rock – basic throw
Gyaku - Reversal or joint lock
Hanbo - three foot wooden staff
Happo - Eight ways, many or all ways
Henka - Variations of technique
Hi - Secret
Hiden - Secret technique/transmission
Ichimonji - The character for "one"
Isshun - One moment, one instant, one chance
Jissen Gata - Real Fighting / Forms
Ju - Ten
Ju - soft
Ju ni - freely
Junan Taiso - Body conditioning and flexibility
Juppo Sesho - Contact in ten directions
Jutaijutsu - Grappling art
Jutsu - Techniques
Kaeri/Gaeri - Return
Kamae - Attitude, posture and body position
Kata/Gata - Form
Katana - Normal sized Japanese sword
Keiko - Practice or training
Ken - Sword or fist
Kihon - Basic or fundamental
Kihon Happo - Fundamental techniques, and way beyond
Kodachi / shoto - Short sword
Koppo finer points of an art
Koppojutsu - Bone breaking art
Kosshi - Bones and fingers
Kote - Wrist
Ku - Nine, Kuji - Nine syllables
Kuden - Oral transmission
Kukan - The space between all things
Kusarifundo - Short chain with weighted ends
Kuzushi (In Budo) - to break the attackers balance
Kyo & Jitsu - Truth and Deception
Kyusho - Weak point
Maai - Distance
Makimono - Scroll
Metsubushi - Blinding powder
Nagare - Flow of events moment to moment
Nagashi - Deflecting
Nage - Throw
Nin/Shinobi - Perseverance; also subterfuge
Ninja/Shinobi (no Mono) - Person who does Nin
Ninjutsu/Ninpo - Techniques/Ways of Nin (Taijutsu/Budo)
Omote & Ura - Front and Back
Osotogare or Nage - Outside reaping throw
Randori - A more free, reactive kind of training
Ryu - Style or tradition of martial arts
Sanshin no kata - Movement form, (with much depth)
Senban - Type of shuriken
Sensei - Teacher
Shinai - Bamboo version of sword
Shinken Gata - Real fighting form or feeling
Shuriken - Throwing blades
Soke - Head of family, Grandmaster (& more)
Suigetsu - Solar plexus
Tabi - Split toed footwear
Tai - Body
Taihenjutsu - Body changing /adapting art
Taijutsu - Fighting system or Body techniques
Taiken - the name of my dojo - Personal experience/Great Circle/Great Sage
Tanto - Knife
Ten Chi Jin - Heaven Earth Man
Tobi - Jump
Tori/Dori - Take
Tsuki - Thrusting punch
Uke - Receive
Ukemi - Breakfalls, receiving movements and waza
Waza - Techniques
Yari - Spear
Yoko - Side
Zanshin - Increased awareness of self, others and events in a fight