According to the Wikimedia, “Haragei (Japanese: 腹芸, literally: "belly art/performance") is a Japanese word referring to the art of exuding one's personal energy, ki (Chinese qi) primarily from the hara, at base of the abdomen, three finger widths below and two finger widths behind the navel.
Haragei is sometimes called "emotional communication."
Matsumoto gives the following dictionary definition: 1) The verbal or physical action one employs to influence others by the potency of rich experience and boldness; 2) The act of dealing with people or situations through ritual formalities and accumulated experience.” (Wikipedia)
Haragei literally means "the art of the lower belly". In a general, non-martial arts sense, it means to have a highly developed intuition that allows a person to grasp the true nature of a situation without having to resort to explicit verbal communication. A person with haragei will be able to look behind what a person says to what they really mean and will also be able to successfully hide his own true intentions if necessary.Traditionally, the Japanese have believed that the seat of the soul is located in the hara, and have a lot of phrases that indicate this:"Hara ga suwatteiru" "His belly is solidly seated", meaning that the person has determination and confidence and is not easily perturbed."Hara wo watte hanasu" "To split the belly and talk", meaning to have a frank conversation where nothing is hidden; that is, the contents of one's hara are exposed (not the same as "spilling your guts", although there is a similar connotation of being completeley honest)."Hara no saguriai" "Searching one another's bellies", meaning the subtle mental fencing involved in trying to discover the other's true intentions without exposing your own. This process uses a lot of feints, parries, mis-direction, traps and general subterfuge, and a certain amount of what people in the West would call lying but what salesmen everywhere recognize as strategy.It should be easy to see how this applies to martial arts, since the process of a conflict usually involves hiding your own true intent while discovering the intentions of the enemy and using that information to devise various traps and strategems to defeat him. This can only be accomplished if you, in your turn, have the "haragei" needed to not be fooled by the enemy's strategems. In a physical sense, this is accomplished by learning to be calm and unruffled (hara ga suwatteiru) so that the enemy's intent becomes clear. (Earl Hartman)
Haragei is sometimes called "emotional communication."
Matsumoto gives the following dictionary definition: 1) The verbal or physical action one employs to influence others by the potency of rich experience and boldness; 2) The act of dealing with people or situations through ritual formalities and accumulated experience.” (Wikipedia)
Haragei literally means "the art of the lower belly". In a general, non-martial arts sense, it means to have a highly developed intuition that allows a person to grasp the true nature of a situation without having to resort to explicit verbal communication. A person with haragei will be able to look behind what a person says to what they really mean and will also be able to successfully hide his own true intentions if necessary.Traditionally, the Japanese have believed that the seat of the soul is located in the hara, and have a lot of phrases that indicate this:"Hara ga suwatteiru" "His belly is solidly seated", meaning that the person has determination and confidence and is not easily perturbed."Hara wo watte hanasu" "To split the belly and talk", meaning to have a frank conversation where nothing is hidden; that is, the contents of one's hara are exposed (not the same as "spilling your guts", although there is a similar connotation of being completeley honest)."Hara no saguriai" "Searching one another's bellies", meaning the subtle mental fencing involved in trying to discover the other's true intentions without exposing your own. This process uses a lot of feints, parries, mis-direction, traps and general subterfuge, and a certain amount of what people in the West would call lying but what salesmen everywhere recognize as strategy.It should be easy to see how this applies to martial arts, since the process of a conflict usually involves hiding your own true intent while discovering the intentions of the enemy and using that information to devise various traps and strategems to defeat him. This can only be accomplished if you, in your turn, have the "haragei" needed to not be fooled by the enemy's strategems. In a physical sense, this is accomplished by learning to be calm and unruffled (hara ga suwatteiru) so that the enemy's intent becomes clear. (Earl Hartman)
To conclude, althought the company name is Haragei and there are a lot of meanings related to that phrase, I do not need to apply one of these meanings when designing logo for the company. Because the name itself is interesting enough.
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