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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 ().
A shuriken (Japanese: 手裏剣, lit. ' hand-hidden blade ') is a Japanese concealed weapon used by samurai or ninja or in martial arts as a hidden dagger or metsubushi to distract or misdirect. [1] [2] Shuriken are also known as throwing stars, or ninja stars, although they were originally
The daishō (大小, daishō) —"large and small" [1] —is a Japanese term for a matched pair of traditionally made Japanese swords worn by the samurai class in feudal Japan. The etymology of the word daishō becomes apparent when the terms daitō , meaning long sword, and shōtō , meaning short sword, are used; dai tō + shō tō = daishō ...
Japanese armour was generally constructed from many small iron (tetsu) and/or leather (nerigawa) scales (kozane) and/or plates (ita-mono), connected to each other by rivets and macramé cords (odoshi) made from leather and/or braided silk, and/or chain armour . Noble families had silk cords made in specific patterns and colors of silk thread.
[1] [2] [3] The series also has a Minecraft-inspired and Rubik's cube motif. The lead screenwriter for the series is Junko Kōmura. The cast and characters were revealed at an event at Tokyo Dome City on January 23 and 24, 2016, [4] while the characters had their official debut in the film Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. ToQger the Movie: Ninja ...
In Netflix's House of Ninjas (released and set in 2024 Japan) depicted a number of successive leaders of the Fūma tribe, each of which named Fūma Kotarō (the 18th, the 19th, the 20th). A fictional weapon called the Fūma shuriken is a large collapsible shuriken with four blades.
The Meifu Shinkage-ryū is a modern school of Shurikenjutsu. [1] It was founded by Chikatoshi Someya (染谷親俊, Someya Chikatoshi) in the 1970s. Someya was a student of Yoshio Sugino of the Katori Shintō-ryū, although the throwing style used in Meifu Shinkage-ryū is different.
A kusarigama (Japanese: 鎖鎌, lit. "chain-sickle") is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle or billhook) on a kusari-fundo – a type of metal chain (kusari) with a heavy iron weight (fundo) at the end. The kusarigama is said to have been developed during the Muromachi period.