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the spinning blade ninjas mostly used to distract, not kill, you romantic fool
means A flat, multi-pointed metal blade designed to be thrown with a spinning motion, associated with Japanese ninja and martial arts.
from A literal English compound — a star you throw — used as the common Western name for what Japanese calls the shuriken, from 'shu' (hand), 'ri' (release/within), and 'ken' (blade), roughly 'hidden hand-blade.' The star-shaped variety is more precisely the shuriken-ken or 'wheel sword' (kuruma-ken); the pointed-star image that 'throwing star' conjures owes much to 20th-century Western movies, which seized on the most photogenic form of an old and varied family of concealed weapons.
- real name
- shuriken means hidden hand blade in Japanese
- poison trick
- some were dipped to make wounds worse
- not lethal
- rarely deadly, often thrown to harass or flee
- farm origin
- early designs mimicked everyday tools and washers
- modern ban
- illegal to own in several US states
shuriken — japanese ninja weapon with 4-8 pointed blades, used from 15th century onwards in feudal japan
chakram — indian circular throwing weapon, famously used by sikh warriors and featured in sikhism