Kenjutsu | Sword Techniques

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Kenjutsu (剣術; Literally meaning "Sword Technique") pertains to techniques that entail the use of swords, whether the users be shinobi, or samurai. Kenjutsu can be used in combination with taijutsu, ninjutsu, chakra flow and even genjutsu in order to achieve more devastating techniques.  

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• Kumo-Ryū Damashigiri [Cloud-Style Deception Beheading]
Using the Body Replacement Technique to feign being attack, the user then takes advantage of their opponent's momentary shock, and charges forward with a lateral sword slash.

• Kanzashi [Piercing Stab]
The user swings downward with their blade, either from the side or from the middle, stopping within the middle of their arc to thrust the sword forward twice in quick succession.

• Tairetsudan [Retreating Tear Sever]
A defensive technique in reality the user takes his sword back and waits for the opponent to come at them. Taking a small jump back the user quickly unsheathes or pulls their sword back out, creating a quick slash upwards.

• Hadan [Rupture]
The user slashes either forward or downwards to begin with, taking a step forward, following the initial slash with another one, this one the opposite (Upwards or Downwards), while taking another step forward, and following it up with a quick short thrust forward.  

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• Crystal Release: Jade Crystal Blade
With this technique, Guren can quickly form a blade made of crystal on her arm, and use it in a manner reminiscent of a tantō. Blades can be formed on both arms if needed.

• Kumo-Ryū Uragiri [Cloud-Style Reverse Beheading]
The user does a powerful spin, generating the momentum needed to slash at any opponents behind them. The user can also utilise this spinning motion to trick an enemy that's in front of them. The enemy is fooled into thinking the user will attack them, but instead the user attacks the targets behind the user.

• Kumo-Ryū Omotegiri [Cloud-Style Front Beheading]
The user swings their sword in a single quick and powerful cutting motion to attack an enemy in front of them.

• Kumo-Ryū Mikazukigiri [Cloud-Style Three Days' Moon Beheading]
The user swings their sword in a single, large, crescent moon-shaped arc, which occurs with such ferocious velocity that the technique can be employed in situations where only a very limited time to react is available. The swing can be used to counter attacks from multiple opponents simultaneously.

• Drilling Crimson Blade
Towa takes out his blade and channels his chakra into it. Towa runs toward the opponent, slashing them upwards into the air and then appears above him/her, and delivers a sharp, drilling slash down upon them, impelling the opponent to the ground.

• Fury Swallow
Asuma punches the opponent a few times and finishes them with two final slashes.

• Rotating Ferocious Wind
This is a technique used with chakra enhanced weaponry, which creates a large gust of wind. When Seimei united the weapons with the other three special weapons from Takumi Village, the gust of wind transformed into a very strong whirlwind.

• Sword Barrage
With this jutsu, the user makes a sequence of slashes with their sword and finishes with a powerful final slash doing liberal damage to the enemy.

• Shockwave Slash
A swift ranged attack where the user swings their sword at a target after coating it in chakra, releasing a sharp crescent of chakra in the arc that the blade was swung. The slash goes for about 10 feet, before dissipating.

• Chakura Tō: Maichimonji [Chakra Blade: Straight Line]
The user runs up to the opponent at high speed, and delivers several slashes with his chakra-enhanced blades (3), finishing with a sweeping slash across the chest.

• Flying Swallow Barrage
Making multiple slashes the user attacks the chest with two slashes, one thrust towards the abdomen and another slash before raising their blade over there head and jumping up and slamming their blade down along the ground, sending a small shock wave in front of them along the ground. 5 feet tall and a length of 15 feet, before it stops.

• Samidare [Early Summer Rain]
The chakra flowing through the users blade extends the length of their weapon by a foot, a charka colored extension shows along the end of their weapon and then users begins their assault. Slashing multiple times along the opponents mid-section and finishing it with a hard thrust, in which the charka laying on the blade shoots forward sending the opponent back violently.
 

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• Hiramekarei Kaihō [Hiramekarei Unleashing]
Adhering to the principles of Iaidō, the user performs a quick and powerful slash with their sword in order to cut the intended target, before immediately resheathing the blade afterwards. When used by Mifune, the technique was strong enough to cleanly slice open the large head of Hanzō's salamander, Ibuse.

• Iaidō [Way of Iai]
The term Iaidō (居合道) refers to a specific style of kenjutsu that is concerned with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard. The linear motion and force applied to draw the sword from its scabbard result in much faster slashes than ones realised with the sword already drawn. The speed at which these techniques can be executed — the initial strike in particular — is such, that when performed by a skilled user, it can prevent enemy shinobi from forming hand seals (and thus ninjutsu), by exploiting the small opening that these movements create. This makes them highly effective against most shinobi and potentially, those of even Hanzō's calibre, if performed by one who has mastered the style, such as Mifune.

• Ikazuchi no Kiba [Crystal Release: Jade Crystal Blade]
By drawing together his twin swords, Raiga can send an electrical essence into the clouds, allowing him to create lightning strikes in any desired location.

• Karamatsu no Mai - Dance of the Larch]
The user uses this jutsu to create a mass of razor-sharp bone spikes all over his body. These spines appear to be branches off his pre-existing skeletal structure rather than completely new bones. The user is even able to grow these bones at an extremely rapid rate so they can stab an opponent even as they are growing. He can even use them to block or trap an opponent's strikes. In addition to being an unwelcome surprise for opponents, it makes him basically untouchable at close range. If an opponent would start to get close to him, he would start to spin rapidly slashing the foe in multiple areas of their body.

• Kumo-Ryū Kaengiri [Cloud-Style Flame Beheading]
The user first imbues their blade with fire, before slashing in the direction of the desired enemy, resulting in the creation of large arcs of intense flame that follow the trajectory of the previous swing. A skilled user of this technique, such as Atsui, is capable of surrounding their immediate area with a circular wall of flames, incinerating multiple targets even if they approach from numerous angles simultaneously.

• Flying Sparrow
Asuma channels enormous amounts of chakra into his Chakra Enhanced weapons repeatedly strikes the opponent. With the finishing blow he makes a great big slash. Then, the opponent falls, and out of nowhere another blinding slash comes, greatly damaging the enemy.

• Heaven's Needle Barrage
Komachi moves forward and delivers a quick slashing attack with her short sword, pushing the opponent away from her. She then leaps high into the air above the opponent and removes the ornamental needles in her hair before throwing them downward in a fast-moving barrage. This technique lands a fairly large number of hits upon the opponent and also inflicts severe damage.

• Hiramekarei Unleashing
Chōjūrō unleashes his sword, shaping chakra around it to form a giant hammer. This causes the bandages that are wrapped around the sword to unravel. The chakra can actually mold into other weapons.

• Kusanagi Sharp Slashes
Sasuke appears in front of his enemy, takes out his sword slashing the enemy many times and reappears behind his enemy. Then, the enemy collapses shortly afterward.

• Samurai Saber Technique
Unique to samurai, this technique employs the concept of 'Chakra Flow', similar to the Flying Swallow and Sword of Kusanagi: Chidori Katana techniques. Through "Chakra Flow", the user channels their chakra through their swords. This extends the reach and the cutting edge of the blade, and also allows the user to fire crescents of energy whenever the blade is swung. This released chakra is capable of great destruction as shown from how it ripped up, or through, a stone pillar; the shock from the samurai that someone "could" deflect this jutsu is also telling. The samurai have also shown shape transformation, as the chakra blades form into giant buzz-saws, broad swords, spiked shafts, and axes. This ability allows the samurai to rely on smaller swords while retaining greater reach, damage, and surprise as needed.

• Chidori Katana
This technique allows Sasuke to flow Chidori through his chokutō. This makes it nearly unblockable as the radiating and chirping blade can easily cut through steel. Furthermore, if an opponent is stabbed, their body goes numb due to an electrical current which causes the muscles to go stiff, making it impossible for the opponent to move.

• Sword of Kusanagi
Long Sword of the Heavens: This is a technique that allows Orochimaru to levitate the Sword of Kusanagi and attack foes at mid-range. The blade will move according to Orochimaru's finger movements.

• Wind Counter
Using the Chakra enhanced weaponry, the user of this technique can easily cancel another Wind Release technique and redirect it to its user in the form of a hurricane
 

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• Chidori Sword
Sasuke uses his chokuto sword to channel an extremely powerful Chidori capable of shocking anything in its path. It appears to have an even greater range than Chidori Current, making it more effective in battle. It can be noted that this technique is more of a use on water, because the lightning current produced is carried on the entire surface making it more difficult for the enemy to avoid it.

• Raging Swallow
Asuma slashes the opponent with his Chakra Enhanced weapon, repeatedly punches them, uppercuts them and deals heavy damage on them with one final slash that emits wind chakra strong enough to slice a huge layer of rock.

• Raging Thunder
By focusing much gelel energy on his sword and giving a blow with it, Temujin can create a powerful Gelel barrier before him. This jutsu was used in an attempt to negate Naruto's Rasengan. The two attacks resulted in a massive explosion that destroyed the mountain peak that Naruto and Temujin were fighting on.

• Wind Cutter Technique
This technique requires wind-infused chakra enhanced weapons, and allows the user to divide and neutralize a Wind Release technique, making it harmless. The user can even redirect it to the launcher of the Wind technique.

• Seven Swords Dance
Killer Bee goes into a pose with his seven swords. The swords are charged with lightning chakra to greatly increase their cutting power through high-frequency vibrations. He holds a blade at both his elbow joints, one at his left armpit, one in his mouth, one in his right neck joint, one between his stomach and one at his right leg. As strange as it seems, Killer Bee is very skilled with these blades, and spins in a manner similar to a buzz saw, leaving no opening for even a skilled Sharingan user like Sasuke Uchiha and a highly trained swordsman Suigetsu Hōzuki. Striking with his various ways of unpredictable spinning, Killer Bee finds an opening and strikes with all seven of his swords simultaneously. Though powerful, Killer Bee applied too much pressure on the blades, and several of them snapped at impact.

• Mikazuki no Mai [Dance of the Crescent Moon]
The user creates three shadow clones, and each one of them assaults the enemy from a blind spot. The attack occurs on three fronts simultaneously, so it's almost impossible to catch them flat-footed. Furthermore, the mighty attacks are so severe that receiving a blow even from one among the three will inevitably result in a fatal wound. In addition, because of the magnificence this ninjutsu projects as they jump at the opponent's upper body in an orbital pattern, the elegance of which is reminiscent of the shape of a crescent moon.

• Tessenka no Mai [Dance of the Clematis]
The user's entire forearm is encased in a giant drill made of bone to attack the trapped victim. The bone is strengthened (through compression and its plaited spiral shape) to become the hardest type of bone the body can produce. The bone resembles a flower, hence the name. It was strong enough to drill a deep dent in Gaara's Ultimately Hard Absolute Defense: Shield of Shukaku, though it was unable to penetrate it before shattering from overpressure.

• Happa Rokujūshi [Blastsword Technique]
Unravelling a large length of the explosive tag roll from the Shibuki, Jinpachi sends it towards his enemy in a circular motion cutting off any escape route and engulfing them in a wide-spread explosion.
 

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• Keyaki no Mai [Dance of the Zelkova]
The user knocks the opponent into the air and then appears above them before extending a large number of spikes form his arm to stab the opponent.

• Nejirihana no Mai [Dance of the Spiral Basil]
The user (when in his cursed seal level two form) attacks the enemy repeatedly with alternate strikes from his hands and tail and then finishes off with a powerful strike from his bone drill, knocking the enemy backwards.

• Hiiragi no Mai [Dance of the Holly]
The user advances at the enemy with his bone sword spinning rapidly like a drill and strikes them rapidly in different places.

• Hasagurama no Mai [Dance of the Hasagurama]
The user appears above the enemy, extends his bones and spins downwards like a giant drill to rip through the enemy's head.

• Yaemugura no Mai [Dance of the Eightfold Vines]
The user pulls out two bone swords, and then dives onto the opponent, slashing twice. He then unleashes a flurry of stabs, knocking the opponent back. He then dashes behind the opponent, unleashing bone spikes all over his body and impaling the opponent.

• Ryōbu no Mai [Dance of the Diamond World]
The user slices downward acrobatically with his sword, slicing the enemy's knee. In the games, this has the effect that it automatically breaks the guard of an enemy who has been blocking attacks.

• Oniyuri no Mai [Dance of the Demon Lily]
The user (when in his cursed seal level two form) attacks the enemy repeatedly with alternate strikes from his hands and tail and then finishes off with a powerful strike from his backbones.

• Sawara no Mai [Dance of the Cypress
The user repeatedly attacks the enemy with alternating attacks with his sword and his knee bones.

• Susuki no Mai [Dance of the Bell Tree]
The user uses his bone sword to strike the enemy with amazing speed at different vital areas of their body. In the game, this attack can be used repeatedly in succession to not give the enemy a chance to attack back.

• Asami no Mai [Dance of the Beautiful Linen]
The user slices upward with a sword made of bone and then extends his bones from his back to throw the opponent into the air violently.