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Shurikenjutsu (手裏剣術) is a general term describing the traditional Japanese martial arts of throwing shuriken, which are small, hand-held weapons used primarily by the Samurai in feudal Japan, such as metal spikes bō shuriken, circular plates of metal known as hira shuriken, and knives ().
Plate Shuriken: Alfaro throws several plates at a target at high enough speed and with enough force to cut through multiple targets at once. Limon The sommelier of the Bishoku-kai, Limon is a woman of average build, with long black hair and strange markings under her eyes. She is one of the few Bishoku-kai members that Alfaro says are capable ...
Shuriken are also known as throwing stars, or ninja stars, although they were originally constructed in many different shapes. The major varieties of shuriken are the bō shuriken (棒手裏剣, stick shuriken) and the hira shuriken (平手裏剣, flat shuriken) or shaken (車剣, wheel shuriken, also read as kurumaken).
For example Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, known as a "samurai" art, has both a bo-shuriken and a hira shuriken as characteristic blades of this art. Iga Ryu, an art known as a "Ninja" art, uses a bo-shuriken as well as the more commonly known hira-shuriken. To confuse matters even more, a famous sword school, Katori Shinto Ryu, a school one would ...
The Chinese softshell turtle [1] (Pelodiscus sinensis) is a species of softshell turtle that is native to mainland China (Inner Mongolia to Guangxi, including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, with records of escapees—some of which have established introduced populations—in a wide range of other Asian countries, as well as Spain, Brazil and Hawaii.
That’s a lot of piggies! I wasn’t the only one who enjoyed watching the guinea pigs chow down. People left more than 800 comments about Mason's Guinea pigs, some of which were pretty funny ...
The African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also called the sulcata tortoise, is an endangered species of tortoise inhabiting the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel, in Africa.
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