Principles of Aikido
"With the able assistance of editor Irene Wellington, Saotome has developed a series of clear and useful essays on how the traditional skills and habits of mind developed by the martial ways can be put to positive uses. . . . Saotome teases new meaning out of ossified terminology—or more to the point, restores original meaning to crusted-over concepts.  And it is in such sections that the inherently fluid nature of thought rooted in the ideogram is most clearly conveyed."—In These Times