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Spirit Over Technique

技術より心術 (gijutsu yori shinjutsu)

技術より心術 (gijutsu yori shinjutsu): the mind's bearing over the technique. より weighs one word against the other: 術 is in both, 技 is the skill of the hands and 心 the heart. 心術 is old Japanese, and the dictionaries' first citation for it is Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō; it was a Zen word for the bearing of the mind long before it was karate's. Funakoshi Gichin, the founder of Shōtōkan karate, set the pair among his twenty precepts. Spirit over technique is the received English; mentality over technique is the other.

Philology of 空手に先手無し · 先づ自己を知れ而して他を知れ · 技術より心術 · 心は放たん事を要す · 常に思念工夫せよ

Verify: 技術より心術 in the Japanese-English Dictionary

Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Block Vertical VB5C
Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Block Vertical VB5D
Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Cursive Vertical VC5B
Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Design Vertical VD6B
Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Semi-Cursive Vertical VS5C
Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Block Horizontal HB5A
Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Cursive Horizontal HC6A
Spirit Over Technique (技術より心術) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Spirit Over Technique 技術より心術 gijutsu yori shinjutsu Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS6A

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