Hello Dudi,
In this connection, if you have time please read my latest installment of the essays I am writing over at AikiWeb (it is Transmission, Inheritance, Emulation, No. 27). Of course, I have looked at Karl Friday's article, along with everything else he has written. The essay is part of a larger group dealing with how creativity was structured by the Japanese, especially at the time when the so-called Zen arts developed flourished. The intellectual structure of the martial arts shared a commonality with other arts, especially renga, chanoyu and Noh. Eiko Ikegami's book on aesthetic networks in late medieval Japan. The essay needs to be read as part of a sequence from Nos. 26 to 28. I am still working on 28, which deals with SHU-HA-RI.
Best wishes,
PAG
Peter Goldsbury,
Forum Administrator,
Hiroshima, Japan