The purpose of this study is to describe the experience of body in sport from a point of view of Nishida Kitaro's “action-intuition”, and to delineate the situation in which body has the experience in seeing a thing by action.
Nishida considers acting and intuition as immediate coherence. There is no action without intuition, and no intuition without action. Acting is seeing, and seeing is acting. Acting and seeing are one. Therefore, he unifies acting and intuition as a term of “action-intuition”. “Action-intuition” involves the function of seeing a thing by body or action.
Seeing and acting work as immediate coherence in sport. This is considered as the situation in which body has the experience in seeing a thing by action. Therefore, this experience of the body in sport is recognized as the experience of body in accordance with the function of Nishida's “action-intuition”.
Nishida considers that ideal elements are hidden at the base of intuition. The ideal elements can be recognized as property of sensuous retention which is considered to be hidden at the base of the function of seeing a thing by action in sport.
