“Yutun-Kari, the stroke of negation. The sword is not a positive instrument. It cannot birth anything – it is an implement of severance. Therefore the swordsman, inheriting this obliterating spirit, is a spirit of nothingness. No movement, no fertility, no life, no potential, no emotion – but also no suffering, no pain, no miasma and corruption. This is the meaning of grasping the non-stroke.”

– Ryo ten Ryam