All it is said in 1/2 (post) can also be suggested in this more elegant way:
According to the legend, many centuries ago, there lived a physician named Shirobei Akiyama. Tradition has it that during his travels to China to study traditional medicine and resuscitation methods, he also studied the combat methods of his time, including an art called hakuda, which consisted of striking with hands and feet, thus differing from jujutsu, which was composed more of grappling and throws. Akiyama learned three methods of hakuda and twenty-eight techniques of resuscitation from apparent death.
When he returned to Japan, he began to teach this art but, having few means, his students soon grew tired and abandoned him. Frustrated by his failure, he retired for one hundred days in meditation at the Daifazu temple to pray to the god Tayunin for improvement. During this time, he developed 303 different methods and applications of the art of hakuda.
One day, during a heavy snowfall, Akiyama observed that the weight of the snow had broken the branches of the most rigid trees, leaving them bare. Shirobei Akiyama’s eyes then fell upon a tree that had remained intact: it was a willow, with flexible branches. Each time the snow, accumulated on the branches, threatened to break them, they bent to free themselves of its weight and immediately resumed their original position. Akiyama understood that strength did not lie in resistance, but in adaptation and yielding. Thus, he created a new martial art that incorporated the principle of the willow, the Yoshin-ryu (school of the spirit of the willow).
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Source: martialnet.it
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