Heian Nidan
How come there is no kata: heian shidan, or dan rank shidan in Karate?
That has been bugging me! Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan, Heian Godan. (how come it like skips 4) I mean its not a totaly equivalent to counting but 2,3,5. Where’s 4? Sorry if I am not making ssense?
For example in counting:
ichi 1
ni 2
san 3
shi 4!
go 5
The prefix “yon” (as in yondan”) is used, I believe, when numbering a sequence. So you’d say “shi” simply when indicating the number four (ex: “I have four apples”), but “yon” in place of the word “fourth” (ex: “I’m fourth in line”). It’s been ages since I took Japanese, but I believe that was one of the more unusual language rules.
Hirokazu Kanazawa – Heian Nidan
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Your explanation is slightly wrong.
Kanji have two readings, the ‘on’ (Chinese) and ‘kun’ (Japanese) reading. Thus, in Japanese language, a single kanji can be said in two different ways. For example, the kanji çİş
can be pronounced “kara”, as in Karate, or as “aki” an in aki-kan (empty aluminium can). Actually, this kanji has a third reading too – sora (sky), so it’s perhaps not the best example.
Anyway, “shi” sounds very similar to the Japanese word “to die” (shi-nu), and Japanese people generally don’t use “shi” when counting. Most people use “yon” or “yo”. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone using shi except in a dojo context.
Louis Irving,
Tsukuba, Japan.
p.s. I would be very surprised if anyone can actually say karate kata are actually 3,000 years old – especially considering that we don’t know so much about karate’s lineage more than about 600 years.