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A school for (Japanese) martial arts training.

• Dōjō

• Do-Jo Japanese: 道場, “way-ground[s]”

See also:

• /tag/japanese+martial-arts

• 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”.

• 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 ]

Footnotes

1. TODO – Past-self didn’t provide a source. [ ↩ ]