Discovering the mystery of the nine spells and gestures of ninja, "Kuji-kiri"

The word kuji-kiri may not be popular, but will become very familiar among ninja fans once you'll see the 9 finger gestures and hear the nine spells by ninja.
But actually, what do they represent, what do they mean, and where is its origin?
Watch this episode and learn from Kawakami-sensei about the real meaning of all the keywords and the purpose of doing it.
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「九字切り」という言葉はあまり知られていないかもしれませんが、9本の指の仕草や9つの呪文は忍者ファンなら一度は見聞きした事があるのではないでしょうか。
しかし、実際には何を表しているのか、何を意味しているのか、その由来はどこにあるのでしょうか。
すべてのキーワードの本当の意味とその目的について、川上先生に教えていただきます。
最後の忍者で知られている甲賀流忍術、川上仁一師範監修の「忍道」は、この貴重なノウハウを自分のものにするためのプログラムです。
本コースを学び試験を通過することによって、世界で初めての忍者の段が付与されるプログラムになっています。
川上仁一師範よりどんなスキルを学べるかが忍道チャンネルに登録することでわかります。
この大いなる遺産をぜひ自分のものに！！！
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[@intenseninja82]

Ninja knowledge will never disappear from my beautiful country, Japan.

[@brigadiergeneral2399]

Glad to see you teaching again. Please don’t let the ninja knowledge disappear.

[@unknown_amazing_chap4480]

As long as l am alive, there will always be a Ninja on this earth. On baishira mantaya sowaka!

[@blackneos940]

With the advent of the Internet, it's a lot easier to keep the instructions alive. :)

[@Malouco]

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[@Righteousone18]

Katon goukakyuu no jutsu!

[@kdefensemartialarts8097]

Fire Style, Fireball Jutsu! haha

[@kakashisensie8149]

Me watching to know more about shinobi's then act like kakashi

[@zuh-_-6232]

Kage bunshin no jutsu

[@IAMEYI]

AYYYYYYYE!!!!!! TAKE IT FUCKIN EASY!!!!!! OK WE KNOW WHAT YOU WERE LIKE DURING YOUR GLORY DAYS!!!!! WTF!! YOU CAN'T JUST TYPE SHIT LIKE THAT!! 😭

[@tidakdiketahuinamanyaa]

Anjg ank satu ini 🤣

[@PlayUnbox]

Finally someone that transmits the knowledge as it is, without western contaminations. Arigato gosaimasu, Sensei!!!

[@davidbetts2980]

More ninja magick ritual stuff please 😍

[@fcvidt]

That Kuji kiri was beautiful, thank you sensei

[@davidraffath8436]

So awesome I loved it thank you for everything my friend.

[@jackderooy9388]

Im requesting for summoning nin-jutsu . Please do toad summoning!

[@ShinKyuubi]

For any that find this vid via the link in the Short's description that just came out for "Pyō" if you notice at 2:28 the Hiragana telling you how to pronounce the Kanji. Kawakami-san also pronounces it as "Hyō" with the Hiragana looking like this "ひょう" instead of "ぴょう" , that tiny little circle next to the first Hiragana changes it from "Hyō" to "Byō" which when used in a sentence becomes "Pyō". It's become quite common for many to pronounce it as "Pyō" over the years thanks to a lot of media with ninja or using the Kuji-in/Kuji-kiri using that version and that has made people use that version more than the "Hyō" version, this comes from the fact that the Kuji goes "Rin, Hyō, Tō, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen". When said, it sounds like it's coming in a sentence but it's not so "Hyō" is a standalone, as such it doesn't change to "Byō/Pyō". There's dozens of sites that explain the mechanics of why this happens better than I just did but that's the basics of it.

[@RayAshG]

Don't mind me. I just wanna be Raven from Tekken.

[@cubanorasta94]

Or Rikimaru from Tenchu.

[@MachaBREATH]

Well I guess it's time to put you in the Pandora box again you've spoken your foul words false shinobi. Namu namu NAMU!

[@LaithOG]

@@cubanorasta94 I agree hahahahahaha

[@MOUNTAINOUS]

i love the channel and the videos. i have watched videos of kawakami for years. i live in the mountains and have a home dojo with samurai armors and full of ninja gear. mats etc. did bujinkan budo taijutsu and other japanese warriors and solo training in the mountains for 15 years. been a fan and have always enjoyed videos with your skills and knowlege over the years. keep the vids coming.

[@janbauknecht1338]

i want to meet you at the mountain if i read this

[@MOUNTAINOUS]

@@janbauknecht1338 are you from oregon?

[@janbauknecht1338]

@@MOUNTAINOUS i live in germany, how do you come to oregon?

[@MOUNTAINOUS]

@@janbauknecht1338 not sure what you mean? how did i get to oregon? check out my ninja videos to see oregon and the mountains.

[@janbauknecht1338]

@@MOUNTAINOUS you are from oregon, now i got it, sure i will.

[@ltvprmnms]

This is really, really amazing. Thank you.

[@Hiro_72]

This is what I want to learn. Thank you for sharing me.

[@unrussleablejimmies4428]

Arigato gozaimasu Kawakami sensei. Please continue your work in good health.🙏🙇‍♂️

[@roninnotasheeplikeyou.2631]

Very interesting. Thank you for posting.

[@djart5115]

My brother: naruto isn’t real This video:

[@kumarbhadrachalam5505]

lol

[@xiezhao9075]

You would be even more surprised that Sasuke, Nagato, Momochi, Danzo, Hanzo, Kanshin Koji, Fuma, etc... Were all real people.

[@blazeiken2op483]

@@xiezhao9075 for real ? And source

[@JTaylor-pr6rf]

@@blazeiken2op483 he’s right just do some simple research

[@blazeiken2op483]

@@JTaylor-pr6rf really and how did Ur research go .. did you got smth interesting?

[@pumpkinpumpkin490]

So far i know he is the last ninja and he does not want to pass the technique to his children as he said ninjutsu is not important now.IMO he should pass the technique to the whole world to keep ninjutsu alive :(

[@wolfy5svn945]

🤣🤣🤣 if you don’t already do meditation then why would you bother? these are techniques to strengthen the mind during meditation, focus points and whatnot

[@leifodinnson]

Personally I think ninjutsu is still important. If you see what's happening in the world today, we still need these teachings

[@FFKupoNut]

btw i love this channel!!! Thank you for sharing sensai 🙇🙇🙇

[@thyownshadow]

Thank you Master Teacher Kawakami.

[@ModernMartialArts]

Wow!!! Thank You to Kawakami Soke for all this teachings.

[@edgarmontoya4971]

Muy buena explicación, gracias por compartir.

[@Parzival224]

3:27 That grid of five rows and four columns is a truly magical operation about which obviously nothing is said.

[@jeremyarroyo360]

Shinobi/samurai gang signs lol I love kuji I notice diffrent shinobi family have diffrent ways of performing it. It adds on to what you may have also learned this is why one should not say one family branch is wrong can learn from eachother. Osu much respect to sensai kawakami and vanessa from bujinkan togakure-ryu

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நன்றிகள்

[@xxulmagus-pi3fy]

Thank you

[@MieGallery]

Thank you! I was wondering about gestures that are shown in ukiyo-e prints.

[@Aj-tc6dk]

Fire style,magistic destroyer flame!!👌💨💥

[@Chanthierra]

Me: *farts*

[@Christian-ne6ed]

Wow!

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Master kawakami is amazing

[@AnimalsandInfotainmentTube]

たくさんの先生に感謝します

[@zeldaxninja3214]

My boy Sasuke in the ninja suit here💪🏽🥷🏼🤣🤣

[@powerwordsmanwordstoencour5753]

I was told that the cutting motions open a gateway to malice, please explain

[@Supa-gq8er]

Superb🙏

[@LuciferMorningstar-to7ep]

04:42 this is what you looking for

[@jamesnalah3180]

Thank you.

[@noaht420]

Thank you Sensei from the other side of the world Eiiiii

[@TXH556]

"What there was a NINJA in between them, all his good"

[@dhritimandas5037]

She was under genjutsu

[@unknown_amazing_chap4480]

On baishira mantaya sowaka!

[@VulcanOnWheels]

I recognize some of this from a movie. I believe it was Revenge Of The Ninja.

[@MindMagick222]

Thank you so much for sharing this! Namaste 🥰

[@kogashinobi1712]

Namaste

[@Nitman333]

mmm... praying for soldiers to protect you? I've always thought the prayer meant "Warriors from the heavenly realm, come and fight this battle for me"...

[@demonicrush7979]

Fire style fire ball jutsu

[@gungde_ngurah]

9 hand gesture in Hindu called mudra, in Bali only for Hindu priest

[@iwill8607]

I can now kage bunshin myself

[@ephilok50]

Kuji-kiri, is not so much about "spells" and casting magic as it is about focusing your intentions to the task at hand in preparation for whatever task or fight may be ahead. You don't always have to do all nine, it can be one or a combination. They also helped focus breathing and relaxation like meditation of sorts to free the mind and spirit. For people to say he is the last actual living ninja, is a bit of an exaggeration as even he has students! There are other schools, teaching the art. Koga and Iga regions were the foundation but during the warring era of Japan, Ninpo was taught in various form and specialties. Today there are teachers who are not in the news or media and they teach very privately. There is also the Bujinkan which does, in fact, teach 9 schools of ninjutsu. You can call them fakes or whatever, but the same can be said of this guy as well. A true practitioner doesn't waste time on trying to discredit one over the other, pretty much goes against all they claim to be about!

[@AzraelCaptain]

The 9 schools of the Takamatsu-den aren't all exclusively ninja schools. Kukishin-ryu, for example, is composed 9 styles of striking, grappling, sword, spear, naginata, short sword, shuriken and two others, all of which done with the presumption that you're fighting while encumbered in armor. Koto ryu and its sister art Gyokko ryu are chinese schools which are dedicated to disabling an attacker by striking at systemic and structural (bones and nerve/blood vessel clusters, respectively) targets without causing lethal damage. Takagi Yoshin ryu and Shinden Fudo Ryu are for the most part jujutsu. Togakure and Kumogakure are the Ninjutsu part of the curriculum, which are both strategies for infiltration and the usage of the techniques of the other schools within specific stratagems or with specialized weaponry. These fighting arts weren't something every single individual who engaged in some form of spycraft in Japan utilized, and are a very specific curriculum which Takamatsu-sensei inherited by way of his hard work.

[@Alnasrlina]

Why would you need to do such elaborate gestures for simply "focusing your intentions" for the task at hand? There are many more simple and straightforward techniques to do that. It sounds silly and ridiculous. Magic, sorcery and spells have existed for as long as history in every culture and tribe of the world. There is most likely some knowledge that is deliberately obscured in this case.

[@jordanjohnston2453]

​@@Alnasrlinatrue. The idea of just doing magic to alter reality in your favor being something everyone can just learn to do by googling and copying themselves sounds like an apocalypse scenario.

[@baconentertainment2849]

I guess ninja naturally live longer than normal people

[@jellymangojucy]

It is because njnja didn't ate too much they didn't eat fried food and they trained they body normal people think when you turn 60 years old you can't train you can train no matter your age

[@wanmuhammadfadli7032]

Amazing 👍🏆

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Greetings from India

[@SewerBushido]

Thank you!

[@cipher3966]

I didn't notice the third ninja until half way through. How many ninja are there in that room?

[@Boby985]

What is the name of the music at the very end starts at 6:03 ?

[@wadorobin]

Hadouken!! 🔥

[@walterrigerweis4954]

hola alguen conoce la poisicion kjikiri 1..Ri n cual es la posicion correcta de las manos..

[@johnkennethalaneb4225]

I need you sensei

[@legendaryninja972]

Please in next video please do the tutorial how to do kuji kiri

[@RoszuKtz]

Arigato! Sensei ! Zen.

[@mattnobrega6621]

The bunkai from naruto. Sweet!

[@javenpaulnaling2882]

Katon. Fire ball technique

[@Just.Sketching]

0:25 wait, what?

[@aneesharyan3910]

Arigatto gozaimasu

[@scorpzgca]

The superhero way of the far east amazing

[@DonReyOrantoy]

I love the fact that everyone is interested in this video solely because of the jutsus in naruto HAHAA

[@BatLB]

Technically you are incorrect, while the premisse is correct. I came here to find out why Cartoon Ninja depictions kill opponents with sign language.

[@marioryuhernandez2871]

Que lindo ♥

[@souhiyori8640]

Doton: Doryúhéki! *Slams both hands on the ground*

[@123495734]

Hado 99: Goryuun Tenmetsu, wait wrong series

[@marioryuhernandez2871]

Se percinan con más flow en Japón

[@tester1test699]

What is the last sign being written in the air after eeei of the kuji kiri?

[@imoganthanosmamaiemascaltz1833]

Water style

[@AzraelCaptain]

I believe that gesture is done to ward the body. Essentially he's weaving the protective power over himself.

[@tonyyoung1432]

Today date:2-13-23 and time:4:01am😳.I educations love body-stlyes

[@xxulmagus-pi3fy]

I am Ryu Hyubusa. Thank you.

[@FFKupoNut]

Edo Tensai. 4:46 !!

[@Lord.of.Apokolips]

Dislikes were from the ozunu clan

[@Malouco]

DOING THIS AS I SIT ON THE TOILET! NO SUCH THING AS DOWN TIME IN THIS WORLD 🙏

[@OneaeBlack]

Ninja Ninja Power!!!

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Rasengaaaann🌀

[@MegumiFushiguro195]

is this true?

[@felixchuah2854]

Master Splinter achieve that technique before Leonardo does it as well

[@your.cutie_]

Where is my ninja gang 🎎

[@michaelborror4399]

Nice...

[@melodelight]

Thank you so much. Is there a specific direction the Kuji Kiri must be done in?

[@SkullyTheHypnoSkull]

Yeah, they match up with the chakras and you start at the root, and then ninjas can turn invisible once they focus their chi energy in the crown chakra.

[@cristerwayneleal1390]

Philippine 9 Ninjutsu gestures namely: Ka, La, Ma, Res, Kaka, I, Nin, Ko, Ito

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Thanks shopee!

[@jackderooy9388]

I see , so u r from a different hidden village

[@monkeygun7046]

Sasuke in real life, more handsome than the anime version

[@ZODIAC_0P]

Wow.. What a drag

[@underthedarkcloud3941]

Genjutsu

[@raplopez4258]

Somebody pleeeease do a sketch of this in the ghetto, throwing hand signs hahahahaha

[@theraven3739]

So where is the fire?!!! Where is the katon 🤔😂😂💔

[@your.cutie_]

Who is a fan of ninja hattori and naruto

[@preppingwarrior8248]

I only do the 7 gestures because it's is my lucky number.

[@soy_quiquegt3348]

Ponganle subtítulos al español porfa

[@KenLinx]

I know these because I watched Hikari Sentai Maskman.

[@Mike-i2f2j]

Long live ninja

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9 levels of power Look it up

[@LexNoxus]

Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu

[@Aj-tc6dk]

Futon!! rashinshuriken

[@shinemendwoor]

2:31 HIRUDORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jonathanurrutia9554]

Por favor en español gracias

[@rnany1]

Why give so many secrets so openly?

[@thestretchy1539]

Just don’t be throwing that set up in my hood

[@damienlong3009]

I don’t know what are the rules of being a ninja

[@Lord.of.Apokolips]

臨，兵，闘，者，皆，陣，裂，在，前

[@romulloqueiroz]

ええええいいいいいいい！！！

[@wanmuhammadfadli7032]

👍🏆

[@rameshkrishnan2418]

OSU. Domo Sensei... 👍