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That would be rather messy. I'd hate to think what it could do to the costumes.

Hello, Skrat! G'night, Indy!

Hi everyone who's saying hi to me!

@Sanzo: Ah! I've been flying-tackle-glomped!

@Tsu: gonk I didn't know there was gonna be trivia involved!

If you don't know, that's fine. Just was hoping to prove a point...

Anywho, how's it?

-Tsuji

Night Indi!

And you do have a point. (Quick) research says that kunai were farming tools. However, I do have to point that in the world of feudal Japan (if my information serves me - it's been too long) many traditional farming tools or apparati have been used as weapons of defense if necessary.

My favourite example being the Tonfa - which I believe were actually originally millstone handles.

In any case, I may be wrong (as I often am). But I must get to sleep so I can't have a better discussion with you, Tsuji-san.

Goodnight everyone!

Night, Lin!

-Tsuji

It's going pretty good.
('Night Lin!)



Anywho, a quick quote from good ol' Wikipedia says...

"Shuriken (手裏剣; lit: "hand hidden blade") is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing. They are small, sharpened, hand-held blades made from a variety of everyday items, such as needles, nails, and knives, as well as coins, washers, and other flat plates of metal. Shuriken were mainly a supplemental weapon to the more commonly used katana (sword) or yari (spear) in a warrior's arsenal, though they often played a pivotal tactical role in battle. The art of wielding the shuriken is known as shuriken-jutsu, and was mainly taught as a minor, or more correctly, a secret part of the martial arts curriculum of many famous schools, such as Yagyu Ryu, Katori Shinto Ryu, Itto Ryu, Kukishin Ryu, and Togakure Ryu.

Shuriken are commonly known in the west as "Chinese stars", "throwing stars" or "ninja stars". This term hardly does justice to the weapon, however, as the pointed "star" shaped form is but one of many different designs the blades took over the centuries in which they were used.

The major varieties of Shuriken are the bo shuriken (棒手裏剣) and the hira shuriken (平手裏剣), or shaken (車剣, also read as kurumaken)"

Whereas Kunai are...

"A kunai (くない, kunai?) is an ancient kind of trowel, originated during the Tensho Era in Japan. The kunai was normally wrought of iron, not steel, cheaply forged and unpolished. The size of most kunai ranged from 20 cm to 60 cm, with the average at 40 cm. The kunai was used by common folk as multi-purpose gardening tools and by workers of stone and masonry. The kunai is not a knife, but something more akin to a wrecking bar. The blade was soft iron and unsharpened because the edges were used to smash plaster and wood, to dig holes and to pry. Normally only the tip would have been sharpened. The uses to which a kunai was put would have destroyed any heat-treated and sharpened tool like a knife."

I R FINALLY HERE AND RAI-CHAN AND NEE-CHAN LEAVETH ME...... crying

blaugh TSUJI!!!! *glomggles* 4laugh