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To be more specific, my question relates to the judo throw named "釣込腰"
("tsurikomi goshi"). The most common translation I've seen is "lifting and
pulling hip/waist throw" (e.g. [the Wikipedia
entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsurikomi_goshi)). However,
definitional/translation resources (such as
[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%87%A3#Japanese) and [Google
Translate](https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT&sl=ja&tl=en&text=%E9%87%A3%E8%BE%BC&op=translate))
seem to indicate "fishing/angling" as the most common meaning/translation of
"釣込" or just "釣".

I can see the sense in metaphorically relating the action of lifting and/or
pulling to fishing (angling), but I'm wondering if there might have been more
to it than that, like "reeling in", perhaps. Unfortunately, Jigoro Kano (the
founder of Kodokan Judo) is no longer available for comment, and many modern,
accomplished judoka (in my experience) are as weak in Japanese language skills
as I am. So I was hoping for a little scholarly (and non-martial) insight into
the quotidian meaning of this term as it would have been used in late 19th to
early 20th century Japan.
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kanji sports metaphor
What is the best interpretation of "釣込" ("tsurikomi")?
As shown in [this dictionary
entry](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%90%8A%E3%82%8B/), 釣る and 吊る
belong to the same spectrum of "using a rope-like thing to hang/hoist/lift
something". In a sense, Japanese 釣る ("to fish") is a specialized version of 吊る
("to hang"), just as 訊く ("to ask") and 盗る ("to steal") are specialized
versions of 聞く ("to listen") and 取る ("to take"), respectively. Although 釣る
almost always means "to fish" today, it was sometimes used simply in the sense
of "to hang" in the past. For example, I believe
[釣鐘](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%A3%E9%90%98) was named as such
simply because it's hanging, not because it's related to fishing. See [these
search
results](https://myokoym.net/aozorasearch/search?word=%E9%87%A3%E3%82%8B) from
青空文庫全文検索, too. Thus, if there is no clear evidence that 釣込腰 has anything to do
with fishing, I think it's safe to assume this 釣 just means "lifting (with
arms)".

込 roughly means "inwards", "towards someone", "putting inside", etc. Judo
players may understand why it's there better than me.
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The [_Kōdōkan New Japanese-English Dictionary of
Judo_](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/K%C5%8Dd%C5%8Dkan_new_Japanese_English_dictionar.html?id=Sc4LGwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y)
defines the term thus:

> **tsurikomu** ( **to lift and pull** ) To use pulling and lifting movements
> of the sleeve hand (hikite) and collar hand (tsurite) in order to "float"
> your opponent forward.
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