Kaisho Juji Uke
Literally: open-hand cross block
An open-palm cross block in which the hands cross into an X shape; in Shotokan it is contained in the kata Gankaku and Kanku Dai.
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Kaisho juji uke is an open-palm cross block: the hands cross into an X shape in it. The term is given by the English Wikipedia in its overview of Shotokan techniques. The website karatespektra.cz gives the related term kaisho kosa uke, translated as open-hand cross block. In Shotokan kata according to JKA listings it appears in Gankaku as movement 6 and in Kanku Dai as movement 62. The English Wikipedia assigns it to the kata Heian Godan.