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The term is thought to derive from the names of characters that resemble the three strokes in the Japanese kanji character for "woman" (女, onna) in the following stroke order: "く" is a hiragana character pronounced "ku" "ノ" is a katakana character pronounced "no" "一" is a kanji character pronounced "ichi" (and meaning "one").
A group of girls celebrating the women army in Aizu Parade. The image of samurai women continues to be impactful in martial arts, historical novels, books, and popular culture in general. [42] Like kunoichi (female ninja) and geisha, the onna-musha's conduct is seen as the
Fictional kunoichi, female ninja or practitioners of ninjutsu (ninpo). During the feudal period of Japan, ninjas were used as killers, spies and messengers. During the feudal period of Japan, ninjas were used as killers, spies and messengers.
Kunoichi (くノ一) is, originally, an argot which means "woman"; [12]: p168 it supposedly comes from the characters くノ一 (respectively hiragana ku, katakana no and kanji ichi), which make up the three strokes that form the kanji for "woman" (女). [12]: p168 In fiction written in the modern era kunoichi means "female ninja". [12]: p167
For the game's sequel Fatal Fury 3 they considered replacing her with another female character, but due to heavy fan request she returned instead and has appeared in nearly every entry in both the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series since. Mai is a Japanese kunoichi and the inheritor of her family's ninjitsu fighting style.
A Kunai normally had a leaf-shaped wrought blade in lengths ranging from 20 and 30 cm (7.9 and 11.8 in) and a handle with a ring on the pommel for attaching a rope. The attached rope allowed the kunai's handle to be wrapped to function as a grip, or to be strapped to a stick as a makeshift spear; to be tied to the body for concealment; to be used as an anchor or piton, and sometimes to be used ...
"Cardboard War-Machines"), or simply LBX, is a series of action role-playing video games created by Level-5, involving small plastic model robots known as LBXs (standing for "Little Battler eXperience") that fight on dioramas made out of cardboard, with the main character setting out to battle against LBXs created by other characters.
His defining and most often employed weapons are cannonball-like fuse bombs, ranging from regular to small house-sized, which he can seemingly instantly conjure out of nowhere when needed. He possesses knowledge in ancient martial arts techniques, near-forgotten pressure points on a human body, recipes for alchemical concoctions with various ...