ABSTRACT
Jiujutsu is the old samurai art of fighting without weapons. To the uninitiated it looks like wrestling. To enter the Zuihokwan while jiujutsu is practiced a crowd of students watching ten or twelve lithe young comrades, barefooted and barelegged, throwing each other about on the matting. The dead silence might seem to very strange. No word spoken, no sign of approbation or of amusement is given, no face even smiles. Absolute impassiveness is rigidly exacted by the rules of the school of jiujutsu. But probably only this impossibility of all, this hush of numbers, would impress as remarkable. In short, it was wisely decided that the foreign religion, besides its inappropriateness to the conditions of Oriental society, had proved itself less efficacious as an ethical influence in the West than Buddhism had done in the East. Certainly, in the great jiujutsu there could have been little to gain.
