Mukae daoshi is translated as 'embrace and overturn', a unique translation is 'ambushing topple', or 'meeting takedown.' An excellent example of this technique is presented below. The late Sensei Greg Palmer is tori and yours truly is uke.
Shihan Jan de Jong always referred to this technique as mukae daoshi, however, his jujutsu grading sheets do not refer to this term even though this technique/defence is included in the gradings a number of times. The term used in the grading sheets to refer to this technique is ura tai otoshi, reverse body drop.
Why does JDJ refer to this technique as mukae daoshi but refer to it in his grading sheets as ura tai otoshi?
The same technique (or is it?) is called irimi nage, entering throw, in most aikido systems. The term mukae daoshi is a term that tends to be associated with Yoseikan budo/aikido, however, Edgar Kruyning in his The Art of Ju-Jutsu: The Legacy of Minoru Mochizuki's 'Yoseikan' Sogo Budo refers to this technique/defence as both irimi nage and mukae daoshi.
In this technique, or variation of the technique, tori's actions tend to cause uke to bend backwards 'limbo' style, forcing them to fall to the ground. JDJ would have no truck with this variation/technique.
The daoshi in mukae daoshi is taoshi when the 'd' and 't' are interchangeable. Taoshi means takedown. Irimi nage means entering throw. Takedowns and throws are categories of techniques referred to within the martial arts. Is mukae daoshi/irimi nage a takedown or a throw?
Gary Klein in Seeing What Other's Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights explains that insights can provide a new and better understanding; one that is more accurate, more comprehensive, and more useful then the one that existed before. One of the paths to gaining insight that Klein identifies is curiosity. He describes the curiosity path in terms of a 'What's going on here?' reaction. The insight does not come from the question, but rather from the pursuit of an answer to that question.
The mukae daoshi 'What's going on here?' questions can lead to insights that produce a new and better understanding about JDJ's teachings; one that is more accurate, more comprehensive, and more useful then the one that currently exists - if only students and instructors studied his grading system rather than simply engaging in it, and asked, 'What's going on here?'
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