Izu!
By ritual purify, wash clean the sole.
The true form of the All-pervasive
Universal Principle cries out
(Izu-no-mitama)
In the midst of the Light courageously
With martial valor does it howl.
Morihei Ueshiba, 1936.
(Edited by Seiseki Abe under the supervision of Kisshomaru Ueshiba.)
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