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Since the ancient times in Budo, the process of mastering skills, was called keiko. we researched as how keiko was considered through the history of Judo and also the meaning of “make good use of energy and make the mutual benefit and welfare". General results as follows.

1) Jujitsu keiko was understood to mean masterring Kata by limitless hours of repetition, and it was important for the practitioneres develop the abilities of concentration, selflessness and creativity through Keiko. The ultimate goal of keiko for its practitioneres was to acquire the ability to manage their body and mind as they wished. Addtionary, each school attempted to develop samurai with a high degree of loyalty for the Tokugawa Shogunate by means of Keiko.

2) In judo founded by Jigoro Kano, He advocaed the purpose of practicing Judo were not only to brush up the skill of martial arts to win but to develop a healthy body and mind, higher physical fitness, courtesy, sense of self-conquest and power of imagination in order to apply those attributes into their social lives. In forty years he consisted Randori on the basis of kuzusi and kake and devised kata on the basis of Atemi-waza. and so he insisted that it was necessary to practice both Randori and Kata impartially, for both of them has its own function.

3)Jigoro Kano published a thought of Judo from “the most useful of mind and body" to “make good use of energy" and “make the mutual benefit and welfare". But Heita Okabe criticized that the thought of Kano holded true not only Judo but also everything as general validity. It needs further study that we make a term on the characterisutic of Judo.