posture

On-Yomi: コウ — Kun-Yomi: かま.える、かま.う

Koohii stories:

1) [mspertus] 12-10-2006(157): Trees with good posture look like funnels. For example, http://static.flickr.com/53/118084202_8896e54a14_m.jpg.

2) [kodama] 6-11-2007(132): A farm girl uses a wooden funnel as a corset to improve her posture.

3) [Zactacular] 29-9-2007(41): The old maple syrup farmer developed horrible posture because she had been bending over for years to tap the maple trees and funnel out the maple syrup and carrying the syrup back to the shed .

4) [theasianpleaser] 16-12-2008(36): I fell out of a tree and broke my neck. So they put one of those white funnels around my neck to correct my posture.

5) [Schwingy] 20-5-2009(15): In Aikido, you must have good posture (or 構え ). Be as a strong as a tree and funnel that energy into controlling your opponent's attacks.