Heart, One Heart, ... Isshin ...

It is becoming apparent to "me" that Tatsuo was very astute (the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas) in his creation of the name and symbol for his eclectic (selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas) system of karate-do.

Recently I found a new site that gives you Japanese romanization to Kanji, etc. where I discovered a variety of characters that made up a variety of words where one of those characters was the character used for the name of the system, i.e. "shin" or "heart." It may have been dump luck that all this "seems" to be a deliberate connection especially when you learn that Tatsuo studied the ancient classics and used the terse version of the I Ching called the Ken-po Goku-i as a "key" provided to serious practitioners.

One English word, center, uses the heart character which the system of belief for Tatsuo believes that the center of humans resides in the heart. The center of the body being two to three inches below the naval, i.e. hara, and so on ...

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