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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). Shuriken functioned as supplementary weapons to the sword or to other weapons in a samurai's arsenal, although they often had an important tactical ...
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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 ().
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"unlike bo-shuriken, senban shuriken were used as harassment tools rather than as a true throwing knife in" Both bo and hira shuriken were trained to be thrown properly, ie. accurately, and with power. Their purposes were largely the same, that of nuisance, distraction, slowing down, surprise, annoying injury, and gaining advantage to enable ...
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