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A school for (Japanese) martial arts training.
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2019-11-01 - I had an old note that said The Five Rings - (~1645 book), by Miyamoto Musashi, has a section called "the ground book", but I don't recall anything relevant offhand.
Meaning of "Jo" ∞
Jo probably means something close to "place".
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This is probably a bad way to translate Jo:
- ground as in soil and earth, as opposed to floor?
- ground as in grounds, or area within which something happens?
-- like playground, fairground, etc..
The term dates from 1942. [ 1 ]
Last updated 2023-04-25 at 05:14:17
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the date seems good