TweetThe bujutsu are combative systems
designed by and for warriors to promote selfprotection
and group solidarity. The Budo are
spiritual systems, not necessarily designed by
warriors or for warriors, they are for selfperfection
of the individual.”(D. Draeger, Classical
Bujutsu, p. 19)
The word “bu” means martial. The kanji for
“jutsu” can also be pronounced “jitsu,” and “jitsu”
is often the preferred pronunciation used in
Okinawa. The Japanese use the pronunciation
“jutsu” more often.\
The word
“do” means way, way of life or more spiritual
development. Hence, bujutsu means actual martial
techniques for combat, whereas budo means
martial arts for spiritual development. Their
priorities, considered from a three-dimensional
view, are as follows:
Classical Bujutsu:
1) Combat
2) Discipline
3) Morals
Classical Budo:..
1) Morals
2) Discipline…
3) Aesthetic Form
(D. Draeger, Classical Budo, p. 36)
Classical Bujutsu only concerns itself with the
perfection of form when and if the form is
necessary for a combat advantage

Budo on the
other hand is concerned mainly in the perfection of
form with no thoughts given to combat.
In Japan, Europeans brought firearms into

The original intent of bujutsu was to kill an enemy with one blow. Bujutsu, has it’s own shuygo (intensive training), but the goal is not by any means the perfection of character but rather preparing the warrior for the eventuality and reality of real life combat with the correct technique being the difference between life and death.

Bujutsu is about fighting, hurting and – sorry – killing people. You can learn the art the peaceful way – because you are interested in the history, the movements, the warrior philosophy, whatever, but you have to accept it is the Art of War and Killing.
A -Jutsu is a technique or a craft. Its objectives are explicitly functional.

Budo or ,”do”
Eventually, some methods of training became so heavily stylized for sport and entertainment purposes, they were no longer practical for combat, due to their rigidity and emphasis on aesthetics and safety. These methods became simply representational forms of real combat, and thus became known as budo, or way (do), rather than jutsu, i.e. Kendo, Judo, Aikido, Karatedo, etc.

if the motivation for your training is improved health, improved focus, the improved synthesis of body and mind, improved self-defense ability, and you plan to stay with practice as part of your life for an indefinite period of time, you are practicing a Do. The opportunity for deep understanding of the subtleties of the art, and the deep integration of it into your body and mind, is great. The danger in this approach is that the practice becomes soft, easygoing and so fails to foster the depth of demand and the immediacy of jeopardy that made earlier practitioners of the art leap over the usual limits of untrained human beings and strive diligently to go to the ultimate of their capacity and beyond.

The word ‘Do’ means ‘The Way’. In martial arts terms, the suffix ‘Do’ is used to infer that the focus of training is predominately upon the development of the practitioner’s character.
Hence, ‘Karate-Jutsu’ could be thought of as the application of karate in real situations, and ‘Karate-Do’ would be the practice of karate in order to develop the character of its participants.
In recent times, the term ‘Karate-Do’ has become associated with ineffective karate that makes little or no attempt to utilise the highly effective methods recorded within the karate Katas. In fact, practitioners of Karate-Do are now often belittled as deluded individuals practising an ineffective children’s art.
Fighting in a ring has rules, it is a contest, a sport, a combative sport but not real combat. Real combat is when you are faced with survival – no rules , needing to kill or cripple anyone as fast as you can.
In Budo there are ,”holds” for submission, In a Jutsu there are only breaks. To choke someone takes time , too long for saving your life in battle on the street etc. Therfore its part of Judo or BJJ not realistic military survival training to save your life. In jujutsu you break the neck, you don’t grab the GI you grab the wind pipe or jaw bone and break while you throw. Going to the groung don’t work in real life- not opinion- it’s a fact that has been proven in battle for centuries until modern times- You fall to the ground you can get cut or stomped on or hurt or killed. There was a short period in which the military began to utilize the sport fighting , then as advanced as our technology was with weapons , explosives , surveliance etc., The moslem warrior killed the US in hand to hand combat- using moro kali or silat techniques. The public has always been mislead by movies, now by UFC and MMA thinking that is real combat- Fighting in a ring one on one is a game.

Even the ignorance of the gracie family has become a household name- they practice JUDO yet call it jujitsu :
BJJ, it is not a direct derivative from Traditional Japanese Jujutsu, but of Judo. It was brought to Brazil by Mitsuyo Maeda, one of Kano Sensei’s students selected to spread Judo around the world. He landed in Brazil, where he taught the Gracie family. The Brazilians did not differentiate between the terms “Judo” and “Jujutsu” and ended up using the latter. This is still evident on the Gracie website, which states that Maeda was “a champion of Jiu-Jitsu and a direct student of Kano, at the Kodokan in Japan.” This is, of course, an unfortunate case of either mistranslation or misinformation.Jujutsu is of Bujutsu- to cripple,kill,maime on the battlefield, no belts, no ring, no trophy, no holds, not a sport. BJJ is not jujutsu
https://www.gracieacademy.com/history.asp
https://www.jiu-jitsu.net/history.shtml
https://www.completemartialarts.com/w...tsuyomaeda.htm