The essay proposes reflections on the strategies used by Funakoshi to modernize karate in the Meiji era. The results show that by shifting the sense of karate practice to adjust it to Western values, the Master abdicated the traditional sense of budo to invest in a path of formation where symbolic death emerges as a priority. This contributed to accelerate the deconstruction of the image of the royal samurai an...
The study indicates that the Japanese resignified the image of the samurai in the Meiji era. This artifice proved to be effective in unifying the new Japanese identity within and outside Japan with a focus on Yamato Damashi, whose strength even outside Japan maintained the sense of belonging. The study indicates that this feeling is reinvigorated by the practice of martial arts such as karate where ritual and r...
O oriente de Funakoshi se projeta no karatê atual. Nesse viés, os deslocamentos de sentido da desportivização geram valores mesclados do Bushido que unem valores antigos e novos. Com isso o mestre perde autonomia diante da Federação que tende a investir numa estética padronizada e na educação do movimento. Isso acelera a desconstrução da prática que privilegiava o kata e o Bushido tradicional. Nesse sentido, ob...