Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-5778280-20140409175832/@comment-2089817-20140413185024

Well Epzi, the nature of wind is "flow". Hohou is about flow. It is body management that depends on one movement transitioning into the next, and the method at which this is done is heavily descriptive on what kind of Hohou technique it is. Smooth transitioning, sliding into motion, is what Hirenkyaku is. Rapid repetitive steps, from one place to the next in intervals, is Shunpou. Hohou, at its most basic core, is defining the nature of flow. If Hakuda and Zanjutsu define the form that flow takes, and Kidou defines what composes that within the flow, then Hohou defines the nature of how the flow behaves. Now, it isn't totally different from Hakuda, and that is okay, because both of them are physical combat fields. But to differentiate them, Hakuda is about form and Hohou is about behavior.

Therefore, consider the goddess Benzaiten. She is the Japanese goddess of all things that flow. This can include water, words, music, knowledge, and yes, definitely wind itself. When you think about it like this, you enter a world of thought that is so broad, it grants you various ideas on how to proceed.