What Ninja Hand Seals were Actually for
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If you are a Naruto fan like I am, I’m pretty sure you’ve practiced their hand seals for a jutsu. But of course, you will not have fire coming from your mouth or lightning sparking from your hands.
What’s interesting though is that the real ninja in history actually did these hand signs.
But what were they really for?
These ninja hand seals are called 九字印 Kuji-in (nine hand seals), and they were not for performing any jutsu, but for personal mental concentration and autosuggestion.
The missions the ninja were given obviously could lead them to death, so by performing 九字印 they prepared their minds for anything that could happen.
This concept comes from the hand seals that 修験者 Shugenja, Buddhist monks who did rigorous training in the mountains, did before entering the mountains to create a barrier within their hearts to protect themselves from demons.
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He does that with other words to when speaking in English. It's just the natural flow of English to speak it like that. English has it's own cadence, and Japanese has it's own cadence.
@@bitfreakazoid that and Maybe he saw it in English when he was in The USA when he was a kid and The name stuck in his head that Way
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How do you say it in Japanese
So basically:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer..."
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From the Sanskrit Mudra. For focus and concentration, as well as healing.
To clarify, using chi and that of the surroundings to clarify/focus/heal
Yes, mudra are still practiced and preserved in Tibetan Buddhism
@@davidmickles5012 It doesn't seem to have any real power though. Just some cool moves to impress kids.
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The actual reason is way cooler than the stuff anime writers came up with
I've seen this one in an interview on Asian Boss channel! the ninja man said that it's some form of prayer.
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@@martin7002 I forgot his name. I didn't mean to disrespect him, and simply use "THE ninja man (featured in that video)" to refer to him
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His voice is just so calming to listen to and the video are really interesting, keep it up
I really love what the real idea behind it is to create a barrier around your heart to protect it from demons! I’m guessing in our day that means bad energy!
What is the concept of a Zanbato, is it real or is it a word use to differentiate between real swords and abnormally big swords in anime
I know part of it has to do with striking down enemy soldiers on horseback, but yeah would love the full story behind that as well..
@@TheQuestionmarkstudi I thought it was for beheading the horses itself back in the day in the battlefield and not the rider, it was used before they knows or the introduction of firearms to counter the cavalry units. But soon became obsolete because how impractical, not easy to handle, pricey, and a waste of iron resources to makes one of that sword.
And it was easier to master spears and making a fence or digging a trap when fighting with the cavalry units.
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Short, sweet, but one of the coolest videos I've seen from you.
I love learning deep history nerd facts like this!
That jutsu at the beginning gave me such a delight in my heard, you can't imagine.
that's really interesting, i thought it would be something like communicating with each other without speaking like a sign language
That was my first guess as well. 😂
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Man, japanese culture and its close bond with history is really fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
I honestly figured it would’ve been for subvocal communication, considering they were assassins. Gotta have a way to communicate as quietly as possible.
“Obviously no fire is going to shoot from your mouth”
Me:
You underestimate my power 😗🔥
Some of those hot peppers will have it shooting out your butt
so it's like buffing/pray/cheer yourself up before the mission.
I believe that such seals also exist in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Yes. The sheikah and yiga clans use them the same way that they're used in naruto.
I actually memorized these when I used to meditate more and whenever someone saw me they thought I was a big Naruto fan
Nice to know I'm not the only one.
If I'm not mistaken, Shugenja were not necessarily Buddhist, but rather practitioners of Shugendo, a mountain-worshipping religion. They're often practiced syncretically and Meido Roshi, a Rinzai Zen abbot near me actually practices both. It's a rigorous ascetic practice that is not for the faint of heart
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Nice i think they actually made that more calming
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1950: Kids learning Santa isn't real
2023: Kids learning they cant breath fire out of their mouth.
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"U will not have fire coming out of your mouth"
A man can only dream
I like this video it’s truly historically accurate
"You will not have fire come out of your mouth"
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In India, we call them "Mudras". They are of extreme Spiritual, Conscious and Subconscious significance.
The handsigns are also descended from the yogic tradition on Mudras in India, used for meditation and mental concentration
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I suppose the next thing you're going to tell us is that the snake, toad, and slug magic was inspired by a Japanese folk tale or something?
What do you mean they were.
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This is cool! Can you do a video on the history of Japanese sign language?
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Always super informative!
Who remembers when master splinter taught Leo how to do this in tmnt
I very much enjoy your videos, I feel like I have learned a lot about Japanese traditional culture from you.
I’d love to know what drove ninja/samurai to abandoning the ideals of a samurai/ninja.Question comes from playing Ghost of Tsushima.
Admiral Perry's fleet.
My dad taught me these 25 years ago and I still remember like muscle memory.
It is great to know that you did a short on Kuji-in, actually perform it to do as you had stated, for concentration, but also for spiritual protection, it may not be traditional given my omnistic beliefs, but if I had the opportunity to, I would love to learn from ninja, samurai, and monks, ninja and samurai can cover quite some physical aspects while monks can cover spiritual aspects to things help to achieve balance between both aspects.
Doing them is actually calming tho.
Intersting video as always 👍
For those who wants to learn more check out what is kuji kiri
Yo what’re them gang signs you’re throwin up?
Ninja: bro stfu I’m meditating
Perfectly explained! Thank you from a nidan in Togakure Ryu!
Awesome! Thanks for the education!
If I travelled back in time and some samurai clan starts throwing up gang signs I'm fuckin outta there
I have often done similar signs for concentration while on the head trying to rid log from my body. It does actually work. A focal point. No joke.
"Not for performing any jutsu"
" Creates barrier arround heart to protect from demons"
Most interesting. Thanks for sharing.
That was extremely informative ill sub
Okay, but that is arguably cooler than spitting fire
Here me thinking it’s a sign language or a way of Communication if there nearby an enemy, turns out homies just do that to “protect themselves”
I was expecting it for distance communication of some similar situation
I remember seeing this when you went to visit the ninja training school on your TH-cam channel. Was very interesting
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I thought it was for some sort of sign communication between them in missions.
Woah that would've been cooler
In the starting of the video I thought they were use for conversation while they can't talk
The photo of the ninja climbing a rope is on a postcard I've seen and it looked like a nice postcard for my collection
You answered a burning question I kept forgetting to ask. Thank you so much! That makes so much more sense. ^_^
Love this! Would love to see you do more videos on spiritual practices in Japan !
Here I thought they were more practical: silent communication for operations that required multiple people.
I always thought it was a form of silent communication that woumd have been used when teams of ninja were in hostile territory to help avoid being caught
This is interesting topic !!
modern-day version:
1. learn how to cuss in sign language
2. string those symbols together appropriately
3. congrats youre focused
I actually learned this beforehand. There is a youtube channel called "gaijin goombah" who has a series called "which ninja" that compares ninja from media from those of the past and in their Naruto episode they talked about this.
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I already kinda knew the reason, but I couldn't help myself. Your videos are very entertaining.
Thanks for the info
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Your katana video was very interesting I never knew that that’s what katanas were used for
Can katana really break bullets in real life.
I really appriciate you for blurring those out. I had enough spoilers allready and i just started shippuden.
Basically so they wouldn't get nervous while climbing castle wall and kinda help them not to panic while running away from being outnumbered in case they failed pretty cool!
My first guess was that they were a distraction of some sort. Mental preparation makes a lot more sense, though.
Finally, something i can do before my mom finds out about my grades
For a moment I thought it used to communicate because they can't talk verbally due to their job related to assassination or something
Ninjas: *panik**
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Ninjas: *kalm**
It's one of those moment when Uno try to teach you how to play Uno, and then your reply is "You dont know how to play uno"
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So what shikamaru was doing in the chunin exam was basically the original use of the handsign
Bonus fact: the signs are, in order, "Rin Pyo To Sha Kai Jin Retsu Zai Zen"
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Woah. I would've never in a million years guessed that those were based on a real life thing.
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The English word "demon" has a lot of underlying baggage (even though it originally derives from a Greek word, "δαίμων", meaning roughly "spirit, minor deity, tutelary deity"-so almost exactly "kami"-and Latin "daemon", meaning "spirit"), so which Japanese word do you mean when you say that? I've seen a lot of words translated as "demon", everything from yasha and tengu to ayakashi and yōkai.
Most likely, given that shugenja trained in the mountains, it was tengu that one would have to be concerned about. Particularly since, IIRC, tengu could and did possess the unwary. Not as often as kitsune-tsuki or tanuki-tsuki happened, but it was still possible. Oni were probably also a threat, given that they could inhabit mountainous areas, but seeing as how particularly daitengu often borrowed facets of the shugenja's appearance and lifestyle (their dress typically reflects the "yamabushi" or mountain ascetic priest's attire), it seems most likely that they were the greatest concern.
@@Mokiefraggle I agree that seems like a definite possibility.
I love how every place on earth has known of strange things in the wild since as long as people have been around, yet they remain outside of our understanding
Its a bit embarrassing to say but I found out bout this from like teenage mutant ninja turtles where it took on more of its original use in the show as a meditation. I wasn't able to learn it when I was young but I might try again since I can imagine using it for its meditation
I was thinking about using signs to focus my mind and body to a high enough rate to let me take in and focus on aggressive amounts of information
Did they really say "Nin Nin."?
More like, those thinga that we did to make animals during lunch in grade school.
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