Ninja weapons - Shuriken
FROM: secrets-of-shuriken.com.au
The word shuriken, composed of the characters ” shu”, “ri” and “ken”, is literally translated as “hand hidden blade”. The character “ri” is composed of the morpheme (meaning component) “i” as in clothing, in the sense of covering, as well as the phoneme (sound component) “li”, together representing the idea of “reverse, back, or covered. Ri (the on yomi reading) is also read in kun yomi as ura, which to us martial artists would be familiar from expressions such as “ura waza” as opposed to “omote waza”. In combination with the first character, “shu-ri” suggests “hidden in the hand, or in the palm”. “ken” means blade, and is the same character as found in bokken, or shinken, hence “hand hidden blade”.
[…] Gogo Yubari, though only 17 years old, is the personal bodyguard to Oren Ishii, the newly oppointed leader of the Yakuza. She’s been in assassin training for most of her life and takes a sort of demonic glee in not only killing, but torturing as well. Her knowledge of weaponry extends at least to the sword and the mace, though as a bodyguard… more […]
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