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The Hara or lower Dantian, as conceptualised by the Chinese and Japanese martial arts, is important for their practice, because it is seen, as the term "Sea of Qi" indicates, as the reservoir of vital or source energy (Yuan Qi). It is, in other words, the vital centre of the body as well as the centre of gravity.
Hara hachi bun me (腹八分目) (also spelled hara hachi bu, and sometimes misspelled hari hachi bu) is a Confucian [1] teaching that instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full. [2] The Japanese phrase translates to "Eat until you are eight parts (out of ten) full", [ 2 ] or "belly 80 percent full". [ 3 ]
What does "hara hachi bu" mean? To break it down, “hara hachi bu” directly translates in Japanese to “belly 80 percent full,” or eating until you’re 80 percent full, says Kouka Webb, RN ...
Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act. [13]
Haragei (腹芸, はらげい) is a Japanese concept of interpersonal communication. [1] It also appears in martial arts circles, with a somewhat different meaning; see below. Literally translated, the term means "stomach art", and it refers to an exchange of thoughts and feelings that is implied in conversation, rather than explicitly stated. [1]
Hara (written 原 or はら) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Hara Masatane (原 昌胤, 1531–1575), senior retainer of the Takeda clan during the late Sengoku period
Guide in Takamagahara historic site (Japanese) Ono, Sokyo, (1992), Shinto: The Kami Way, Charles E. Tuttle Company, ISBN 0-8048-0525-3; Basic Terms of Shinto, Kokugakuin University, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Tokyo 1985; Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, Kenkyusha Limited, Tokyo 1991, ISBN 4-7674-2015-6
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