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While ninja lore has long been popular in Japan, the cloaked assassins experienced a popularity boom during the Reagan years in the United States, a natural evolution of the martial-arts movie trend. While the 1970s saw Bruce Lee's Go into the Dragon (1973 ), the 1980s ushered in a glut of B movies like Enter the Ninja (1981 ), which worked throwing stars into its box art, and Pray for Death (1985 ), with a poster that featured a ninja masked in a face cowl with a shuriken stuck right above the eyebrow.

We saw shuriken flung in comic books and cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We even chucked virtual ones in video games like( 1988 ). It was no mishap that one of the most desired G.I. Joe figures was the ninja Storm Shadow, who happily displayed two shuriken in his waist sash.

I desired one similar to the by-then iconic tossing stars I saw in films and video games. Sure, I was young and ignorant. I didn't know about the shuriken's true history. I didn't know that the ninja star in fact was available in a variety of styles, from square to x-shaped.  https://changebucket73.doodlekit.com/blog/entry/19812256/top-guidelines-of-ninja-throwing-stars-shurikens-dallas-axe-and-star-throwing-  throwing stars were even, well, thrown; some were used for slashing and stabbing.

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I didn't understand that a lot of ninja iconography had been produced as late as the 19th century by Japanese artists and writersdespite that ninjutsu, the art of the ninja, had actually existed for centuries prior. Artist Katsuhika Hokusai, for circumstances, is frequently credited with first depicting ninja in their iconic black outfitsa costume apparently influenced by the dark clothing of kabuki stagehands.

My parents wouldn't let me buy a metal shuriken, fearing, maybe wisely, that I 'd inadvertently slice myself. Not discouraged, I conserved up my allowance for a practice set of foam stars. "Practice" entailed my getting on the bed and tossing the stars around my bedroom. I believed I was pretty badass.

By "genuine," he meant it was metal and might hurt. The silver metal glistened when he took it out of the black velvet box. The star was stabby-stabby sharp, and we did what any kids would do: we took it outside to throw at a tree. The shuriken felt heavy in my hand, and I was currently envisioning how it would slice through the air.