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心技体 shingitai Mind, Technique and Body

心技体 (shingitai) is mind, technique and body, the three things a sumo wrestler or a student of budō is judged by. The three are old, but not in this form: older sumo and sword texts say mind, body and technique, or mind, ki and body. The oldest 心技體 that the National Diet Library's full-text search returns is a sumo report of May 1942.

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Abstract

心技体, shingitai, is mind, technique and body, the three qualities a sumo wrestler or a martial artist is measured by; the one dictionary of it on kotobank gives it as the general term for strength of mind, technique and physical strength, often used in sport, and names no source [1]. The three are older than the word in two other forms: 心體業, mind, body and technique, in an Edo sumo text of the 1716–36 era and in Yamaoka Tesshū 山岡鉄舟 in 1884 [2][3][4][5], and 心氣體, mind, ki and body, in a Niten-ryū text first printed in 1909 and in kendo and sumo books into the 1950s [6][7][8]. The oldest 心技體 that the National Diet Library's full-text search returns is a sumo report of May 1942 [9][10]; sumo writing made it the yokozuna's measure from 1952, the kendo, judo and karate manuals took it up in the same years, and English met it through sumo, in a wrestler's book of 1973 [11][12][13]. The one study of its origin, of 2025, puts its first appearance in the 1909 text as 兵法心技體覚書, but at the leaf of that edition the title and the text read 心氣體 [14][6].

Overview

The sense. The Digital Daijisen デジタル大辞泉 gives 精神力（心）・技術（技）・体力（体）の総称。スポーツ界でよく使う。「心技体のバランス」, the general term for mental strength (心), technique (技) and physical strength (体); often used in sport, as in "the balance of mind, technique and body" [1]. It is the only dictionary that carries the word on kotobank, and it gives no first example and no source.

Three forms. The witnesses read here have three forms of the triad, and the history of the word is the history of the middle character:

技, gi, and 氣, ki, differ by one sound. The Edo order is mind, body, technique; 心技體 puts technique second.

The historical record

The 1716–36 era, a sumo text. The Sumō densho 相撲傳書, a teaching text of sumo, is given by the National Institute of Japanese Literature to Kimura Morinao 木村守直 and dated to the 享保 era, 1716–36 [16]. Under a figure of a wrestler with both hands raised, captioned 上段の手合, the high stance, it reads, in the typeset of the Koji ruien 古事類苑 of 1900, read at the page image [2]:

甲冑の理合も、各心體の進退動靜の所にしたがふ、相撲白身の業、甲冑を著して不自在といふにもあらず、心體業に熟するときは、業これにしたがふ、

The principle of armor, too, follows the movement and stillness of each one's mind and body; the technique of sumo itself is not hampered by wearing armor: when one is practiced in mind, body and technique, the technique follows. A manuscript copy at Tōhoku University, read at the page image, has the same passage above the same figure: 心體／業に熟するときは／業これにしたかふ [3]. The typesets of 1902, 1907 and 1909 carry it too [17][18][15], and the 1909 one prints 心體業 with the ruby しんたいわざ [15].

1760, the Noh. A Noh treatise of 1760, the 隣忠秘抄 of 徳田隣忠 [19], uses the same three as the parts of a tree: 藝の心得は樹木の如しと云ふ譬あり。心は根、體は身木、業は葉なり, there is a saying that the understanding of an art is like a tree: mind is the root, body the trunk, technique the leaves; the treatise goes on 然るに心體業悉く相違し, yet where mind, body and technique are all out of place [20]. A magazine printing of 1919 gives the passage with 躰は幹 for the trunk and the ruby しんたいわざ [21].

1834, a swordsman. The swordsman 白井亨's Hyōhō michishirube 兵法未知志留辺, with a postscript of 1834 [22], says, in a typeset of 1936: 主とする所は唯天眞のみ、心體技の三の者能く天に純なる時は, what one holds to is only what is true by nature; when the three, mind, body and technique, are pure in that nature [23]. Here the third is 技, the character of 心技體, in the old order.

1884, a carpenter's plane. Yamaoka Tesshū's 「大工鉋の秘術」, The secret art of the carpenter's plane, teaches the sword through the plane: まづ心、體、業、の三つが備はらねばならぬぞ。心體業とは。鉋と人と柱との三つなり, first, the three, mind, body and technique, must be in place; mind, body and technique are the plane, the man and the pillar [4][24][25]. John Stevens's English of 1994 dates it April 1884 and renders the three mind, body, and technique, which correspond to "plane, carpenter, and pillar" [5].

1909, a Niten-ryū text: mind, ki and body. Mihashi Kan'ichirō 三橋鑑一郎's Nitō ichiryū kendō hiyō 二刀一流剣道秘要 (1909), an edition of Musashi's writings, prints after them four short texts under one half-title, read at the page image: 兵法心氣體覺書 · 戰機二天流 · 武藏流修行心得之事 · 二刀一流極意條々. The half-title carries no name; on the facing page the text before them closes with a date of 1666, 寛文六丙午歳中秋中旬之日, and the name 寺尾求馬信行 [6]. The editor's note says the four are not Musashi's own writings but records his pupils made of the teacher's words: 是等の書は必ずしも武藏先生の自著にはあらず、門人等が師の說を聞き平常心に記し手に存するところを傳へ記したるものなり [6]. It traces the man they name, 淺井新右衞門榮廣, through a line of teachers back to a son of 寺尾求馬信行, whom it calls 先生第一の高弟, the teacher's foremost pupil [6]. The first text is headed 兵法心氣體覺書, and its articles pair 心 and 氣 against 體, read at the page image [6]:

一心氣體之三ツヲツカイ分クル事ナリ、分カラザレバ心ハ體ニツレズト云事

Item: the three, mind, ki and body, are to be used each in its own way; if they are not told apart, the mind does not go with the body. Its last article is 一心强クナリ不動シテ靜ニ、油斷ナク間斷ナク、功意ナク、時明ニナル事大本也; it carries no author's name, no date and no colophon, and 技 does not occur in it [6]. Later books name the text the same way: a history of kendo of 1925 calls it 武藏の門人等が記せる兵法心氣體覺書, the 兵法心氣體覺書 that Musashi's pupils wrote down [26], and the Library's search finds the title 兵法心氣體覺書 in nineteen items and 心技體覚書 in none [9].

1897 to 1943, the kendo triad. In Meiji and wartime budō books the triad is 心氣體. A book of 1897 on fencing and jūjutsu lists among its contents 柔術と心○氣。体, jūjutsu and mind, ki and body [27]; a police journal of 1903 offers 心氣體の一致, the unity of mind, ki and body, as the meaning of 氣合, kiai, which it calls 武術家の用語, a martial artists' word [28]; a kendo manual of 1912 has a section headed 心氣體 with the ruby しんきたい [7]; a kendo book of 1914 has 第五 心氣體 [29]; a book of 1915 has 心、氣、體一致論, on the unity of mind, ki and body [30]; one of 1918 says 此心氣體が三つ合致したものが力で, these three, mind, ki and body, joined, are strength [31]; and a kendo textbook of 1943 asks, as an examination question, 心·氣·體の一致とは如何なる事を言ふか, what is meant by the unity of mind, ki and body? [32].

1935 to 1959, the sumo triad. Sumo's triad in those years is 心氣體 too. A sumo textbook of 1935 opens with an essay headed 「心氣體」解題, on 心氣體, in place of a preface, and says 相撲は唯單に力を競ふのみに非ずして、心、氣、体一致の競技なり, sumo is not a contest of strength alone but a contest of mind, ki and body in unity [33]. The sumo association's magazine in 1936: 心、氣、體といふことをやかましく申します。心、氣體とは、心を修め、氣を養ひ、體を齊へたることでありまして, we insist on mind, ki and body: that is, to train the mind, nourish the ki and order the body [34]. The sumo writer Hikoyama Kōzō 彦山光三 wrote in 1941 of the Yoshida house 吉田司家: 從來も、吉田司家では、「心·氣·體」といふことを相撲修行の要道としてゐた, the Yoshida house, too, has long made "mind, ki and body" the main road of sumo training [8]. A sumo textbook of 1941 explains it as 修身·養氣·齊體 [35]; the magazine Sumō writes of a schoolboy in January 1942 that his 心·氣·體 were 申し分なく, beyond reproach [36]; Hikoyama's sumo reader of 1952 still has a section headed 心·氣·體といふこと, on mind, ki and body [37], and a book of 1959 on the Yoshida house prints a leaflet that begins 相撲を修練する根義は、心気体の三ツにありまして, the root of sumo training lies in the three, mind, ki and body [38].

1939 to 1944, the training slogan. In the war years 心體技, mind, body and technique, was a slogan of school budō and of factory training: a handbook of 1939 calls primary-school budō the time for 心·體·技の基礎鍊成, basic training of mind, body and technique [39], and books on the training of factory apprentices, from 1940, ask for 心體技三位一體, mind, body and technique as one, in budō and in the training as a whole [40][41].

May 1942, 心技體. The oldest 心技體 that the National Diet Library's full-text search returns, across all its access levels, is a report in the magazine Sumō of May 1942 on a coming wrestler: 心、技、體ともに三役陣への突入は、折紙附きといふべく, in mind, technique and body alike, his entry into the top ranks may be called guaranteed [9][10]. The same magazine had written 心·氣·體 four months earlier [36].

1952 to 1957, the yokozuna and the manuals. After the war the new form spread through sport writing. An article on sumo in the magazine Jinbutsu ōrai 人物往来, August 1952, says 心·技·体が渾然一体となるこころ、横綱としての貫祿がおのずから備わり, when mind, technique and body become one whole, the presence of a yokozuna comes of itself [11]; in December 1957 a speaker in the magazine Sumō says that 横綱になる人は人格、技倆つまり心技体が共に揃わなければいけないよ, a man who becomes yokozuna must have both character and skill, that is, mind, technique and body together [42]. The manuals took it up: a karate primer of 1952 speaks of 心、技體三位の一致 [43]; the kendo book of Sasamori Junzō 笹森順造 (1955) of 心技体の一致 [12]; a judo course of 1955 edited by Mifune Kyūzō 三船久蔵 and others of 心、技体一致の力, the strength of mind, technique and body as one [44]. By March 1957 a business paper could write 古来我が国の武道ではよく心技体の一致ということが云われている, in our country's martial arts the unity of mind, technique and body has been spoken of since ancient times [45]: a claim of age made fifteen years after the oldest instance the search returns. The Yokozuna Deliberation Council first set its rules for recommending a yokozuna in January 1958; in their present form, as Japanese Wikipedia quotes them, they ask for 品格、力量が抜群, outstanding dignity and strength, and do not use the word [46]. The yokozuna's 心技体 is the sport writers' word.

Judo abroad. Waterhouse and De Crée's study finds the word in judo through Michigami Haku 道上伯, who used it teaching in Shanghai in 1940 and brought it to France in 1953, and quotes him, in a newspaper interview of 2002: 外国で教えるにあたり、私は「心技体」という言葉を使ってきました, in teaching abroad I have used the word 心技体 [14]. They have not found it in Kanō Jigorō's writings, naming the editions they searched, and it is not in Morohashi's dictionary [14].

In English. The oldest English that archive.org's full-text search returns is a sumo wrestler's book: Takamiyama Daigorō's Takamiyama: The World of Sumo (1973) has a section headed Shingitai, which explains the three as shin (mind, heart, spirit), gi (art, technique), and tai (the body, physique). Often used together to form the word shingitai … [47][13]. Sulzberger in 1977 has the essentials of shingitai (spirit, technique and strength) [48]; Michel Random's The Martial Arts (1978) lists it among its terms [49]; The New York Times in 1987 writes, of a sumo wrestler, what Japanese call shin-gi-tai — spirit, skill and power [50], and People in 1989, of a young sumo wrestler, that Kuhaulua took the boy to Japan and tutored him in shin-gi-tai [51]. Louis-Frédéric's dictionary of 1991 calls it the 'triple qualities' [52], and the Kōdōkan's judo dictionary of 2000 glosses it 精神と身体と技術 [53], in English mind-skill-body, as Waterhouse and De Crée quote it [14]. In the shelf books it is mind, body, and technique in kyūdō (1993) [54], mind, technique, and body in aikido (2004) [55], and in the Budō Charter, as Bennett gives it in English, strive to unify mind, technique and body [56].

The published origin, at the leaf. Waterhouse and De Crée write that the first appearance of 心技体 seems to be in a text attributed to the Niten-ryū swordsman 豊田正修, in the title and content of Heihō shingitai oboegaki 兵法心技體覚書 (Memorandum on military arts and mind-technique-body), a short text first printed in Nitō ichiryū kendō hiyō (Mihashi, 1909), date it c. 1755 in their table, and add that the attribution to 豊田正修 they have to accept … on trust [14]. Read at the leaf of the 1909 edition, the title is 兵法心氣體覺書, at the half-title and again at the head of the text, and the text says 心氣體 throughout [6]. The text carries no author's name, and no 豊田正修 appears in the book: the Library's search inside the book finds 豊田 four times, each time 豊田景英, in the appended Niten ki 二天記 [6]. Two library catalogues, of 1913 and 1973, list the book with the Niten ki edited by 豊田正修 in the same entry as its contents, 兵法心氣體覺書 among them [57][58]. Their own abstract calls the sumo term of the Yoshida house a similar term, shinkitai [14], and that is the triad the 1909 text carries: 心氣體, not 心技體.

A reading

The three are old: a sumo text of the 1716–36 era, a Noh treatise of 1760, a swordsman in 1834 and Tesshū in 1884 all set mind, body and technique side by side, and the budō and sumo books of 1897 to the 1950s say mind, ki and body. What is new is the form. In the witnesses read here, 心技體 appears in sumo in 1942, inside a magazine that had been writing 心·氣·體, and becomes common in sumo writing and the budō manuals from 1952, while 心氣體 is still taught beside it. I read the word as made from 心氣體 by changing one character, 氣 ki to 技 gi, which keeps the sound of the triad and the order of mind first and body last, and puts technique, the third member of the old Edo triad, in the place of spirit. No source read here says this; it is my reading of the dates. It explains why the order is mind, technique, body, and not the Edo order of mind, body, technique, and why the 1957 writer could feel the phrase was ancient: its frame was. The word is neither a Musashi saying nor modern sports vocabulary with no past; it is a twentieth-century form of a triad the Edo martial arts and sumo already had.

Notes

Not a classical Chinese phrase. Chinese Wikisource returns nothing for 心技體 or 心體技; the Ming writer 祝允明 has 心氣體之不得其養也, where mind, ki and body are not nourished, in an essay that goes on to set 心 against 氣體, the vital energy and body, as two [59].

Other origins. The Library's search inside Furuki Gennosuke 古木源之助's jūjutsu manual of 1911 finds no 心技 in it [60]. Waterhouse and De Crée's table gives Musashi a 心技體 of c. 1610 with no source [14]; no witness read here supports it.

The schools. Modern collections of Edo martial texts carry 心気体 in the volume of spear and other arts, 手数を能習おぼへ、それより心気体を練り, learn the techniques well, and then train mind, ki and body [61], and in jūjutsu texts, 事理心氣體倶一致 [62]; the windows do not name the texts. Waterhouse and De Crée report a 心・気・体 in the Kitō-ryū 性鏡之巻 of 1637, from a modern dictionary [14].

  1. A list of the aims of primary-school craft teaching in a journal of April 1943 has a sequence the machine reading gives as 心技體一 [63]; the reading is uncertain and it is not counted as an instance.

白身 or 自身. The 1900 typeset of the 相撲傳書 prints 相撲白身の業 [2], the typesets of 1902 and 1909 相撲自身の業, the technique of sumo itself [17][15]; the manuscript copy's hand does not separate the two [3]. The translation above follows 自身.

The sumo of 1909. The sumo book of 1909 that prints 心體業 does not carry 心氣體 as a triad; its 心氣 are inside Edo texts it quotes [15]. The earliest sumo 心氣體 read here is of 1935 [33].

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Japanese Scroll of Mind, Technique and Body (shingitai) in a block font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Mind, Technique and Body (shingitai) in a cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Mind, Technique and Body (shingitai) in Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase's own style (jiun)
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Japanese Scroll of Mind, Technique and Body (shingitai) in a semi-cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Sources not seen

白井亨, 『兵法未知志留辺』, the Edo print (二松学舎) and manuscript (無窮会). No image found; read in the typeset of 1936.

徳田隣忠, 『隣忠秘抄』, the manuscript. No image found; read in the typesets of 1919 and 1939.

下郡高, 『神武權衡錄』, known here only through quotations of the 1930s, with 心氣體を離れず.

Nashimoto 2011 and Brousse 2024, on Michigami and judo in France, and the 1974 『肥後武道史』, which prints a Higo text with 己の心氣體直なる時; not opened.

The Yokozuna Deliberation Council's rules of 1958 in their first wording; read only in their present form, as Japanese Wikipedia quotes them.

The Japanese books of the 1930s to the 1950s quoted above are served in Japan only and were read in the Library's snippet view.

A reader with access to any of these is invited to write to Takase Studios at Tim@Takase.com.

References

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