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Great soke great lesson and great video. It is a breathtaking and great and truly logical lesson to us. Thanks for the sharing your wisdom with us. Love you soke.
In this video, I explain how to properly use the blowgun, what type of blowgun the ninja would have used when on a mission and how they would employ various ninjutsu techniques to get close to the enemy to be able to use the blowgun while on a mission. The fukiya (吹き矢) is the Japanese blowgun and is often considered to have been a weapon of the ninja. It is known that in the past, there were numerous schools of martial arts and ninjutsu (such as Tomo-ryu & Togakure-ryū) which used the fukiya. A typical ninjutsu fukiya is around 50 cm (19-20 inches), which is shorter than the sport fukiya and does affect the effective range. Thus, even in theory, ninja would have had to use special darts with poisoned tips in order for it to work, and fired from a close concealed location. The blowgun can also double as a breathing pipe and straw to enable the ninja practitioner to better survive in the wilderness. There will always be doubts whether it was truly effective compared to bow and arrows, since it has a shorter range. In the hands of experts, it can be very accurate, as testified by sport fukiya players today. In Japan, fukiya is considered to be an archery sport, maintained by the Japan Sports Fukiya Association. In order to promote fukiya, the International Fukiya Association (IFA) was formed, based in Japan. The main organizations under the IFA are the American Association (ASBA), and the French Federation (FSBA). This lesson is directly for the practitioners of the ancient Japanese koryu martial arts of the ninja and samurai, such as ninjutsu (ninpo) and bujutsu (budo).
A shakuhachi flute, there's no fipple because it's edge blown so there's a straight through bore. You can just close the finger holes and it would serve as a blowgun.
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