Strike at the waist of the keima
Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Shape, Proverb
Strike at the waist of the keima is a proverb which advises to cut across(called tsukekoshi in Japanese) a keima.
- See cut across for a technical treatment.
- There was an early mistranslation of this proverb. While koshi in Japanese does mean waist, in tsukekoshi it is a verbal form meaning crossing over. See /Discussion
See also
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