LINKS - SHURIKEN ON THE WEB

Recommended Links

Hirano Densho Ryu Toukenjutsu (http://www.geocities.jp/ih641642/index.htm) - NEW!
A modern school of shuriken taught by a Mr. Ohmi. A very powerful throwing style, with large and heavy blades.

Pierre Simons website http://www.oshinkan.com/ a student of Satoshi Saito Sensei, now teaching kenjutsu and shurikenjutsu in France. New! (November)
Translation into English by Dr. Clare O'Farrell

http://fujitaseiko.tripod.com/index.html -
A website dedicated to research on Fujita Seiko, a rather mysterious man known as the last Koga Ninja, and author of several books including Zukai Shurikenjutsu.

An online shop in Japan that sells "aged shuriken", or reproductions, to Museums
http://www.goshin.co.jp/shuriken1.html
Apparently it is quality material, but it is made to look old and authentic, and is used by many museums. Bit of a scam! (In Japanese)

One such museum, no doubt, Ninja Yashiki of the Iga Sect, Ueno, Mie
http://www.yamasa.org/japan/english/destinations/mie/ueno_ninja.html
They have a link to a shuriken display halfway down the page.

An Japanese online shop that sells a number of unusual traditional weapons, including shuriken.
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~bankeshinobi/Ingu/BukiNingu.htm

Ninja Assault, a shuriken Flash animation game - in Japanese
here http://rakuyuu.gi-ga.net/Flash/Shuriken/Shuriken.html Silly, but fun - and shuriken!!!.

Another Japanese Flash Animation shuriken game http://www.adj.co.jp/A/ninja/ninsyu.shtml

Shuriken mentioned in Japanese Magazine "Nipponia",
A Japanese lifestyle magazine ran a feature on Japanese Martial Arts, and briefly mentioned Shuriken here The whole article is an interesting read, but not much on shuriken at all...

The shuriken exhibit at "Ninja Village", Koga City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Private photos of a shuriken exhibit in the Ninja House at the Ninja Village, in Japan, on Takeshi Yoshizaki's webpage. A link to a couple of other pics of the same exhibit, different angles, is found on here, in our Archive.

Another shuriken museum, here at Iga Ueno City. This is a bit of a touristy place

Kyoto University Library Document Collection Photos of Moen Ryu scrolls

Ueno City Tourist Association Museum
A website for a small museum promoting the city of Ueno. Among many examples of Japanese culture, they have a few shuriken on display. Very brief introduction to shuriken. Good to find something new on the net anyway.

A Japanese shuriken website - Mumyouan.com. (in Japanese)
They appear to have quite a bit of technical information, lots of photos and text, but I have never heard of the Ryu. They have heard of this site though, as they provide a link. I'll have to research this one a bit and comment later.

How to make origami shuriken
The Marubeni Corporation's promotional site has a small section on this interesting cultural asset. My 8 year old son Adrian made a couple, and they appear to fly very well in the horizontal throw, but not the overhand throw. I set him the task of researching some improvements to allow the overhand throw...we'll see what he comes up with ! (I love those ninja water walking boots...:-) .

Meifu Shinkage Ryu Shurikenjutsu Homepage (in Japanese) http://www1.neweb.ne.jp/wb/meifu/
This is the website of Yasuyuki Otsuka Sensei, the current headmaster and successor to Chikatoshi Someya Sensei of Meifu Shinkage Ryu,

Seiryukan http://seiryuka.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
They appear to have classes, and to have developed a safe toy-styled version of shuriken for chldren.
A few pics. It appears Seiryukan is a large karate school in Japan.

The Art of Shurikenjutsu have a couple of interesting pages on making bo shuriken and hira shuriken.
http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/shurikenjutsu/

Online magazine The Thrower http://www.sonic.net/~quine/thrower.html has a page or two on shuriken, recently updated. Some interesting anecdotes. There is a couple of photos of a model throwing in Shirakami's style, but I wouldn't say it is an accurate representation of his form, as the hand is placed at the wrong angle and the arm doesn't follow through on the basic throw. Neverheless, some better info here than is found at most other places.

Knifethrowing.info is a site dedicated to the art of knife throwing, with lots of good information. http://www.knifethrowing.info/index.html

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The Art of Shurikenjutsu page have a couple of interesting pages on making bo shuriken and hira shuriken. http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/shurikenjutsu/

Ninpo.Org has a pic of bo shuriken http://www.ninpo.org/picturearchive/weapons/weapons2.htm what's more interesting is the selection of arrow heads...

A page on shuriken from the Mahoutsukai Bujinkan Dojos in England http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mahoutsukai/archive/shuriken.html

Rogelia's page on shuriken http://home.online.no/~rogelia/shuriken.html#hirashuriken

Mention of shuriken on a German Page, just a list of different types, seems to be a Ninjitsu site

A page in German with a nice pic of throwing the uchine

Eric's Ninja page a pic and info about shuriken. Some wrong information here .http://acl.okstate.edu/users/erikm/ninja/shuriken.html

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Don't bother...

A good example of Bad Budo! You have to check these guys out so you know what to be careful of. I can't believe these guys are still alive... the Iga Ninjas - New!

Takeda Ryu Nakamura-ha Sobudo have shuriken-jutsu listed as one of their 7 arts. This group is a bit suspect, as they purport to be a classical art with connections back to Takeda Shingen, yet it appears they are a modern creation (see E-Budo thread)

Tallaght Shuriken Jitsu Academy is not Shuriken at all, but Ju Jutsu. They use the name only.

An Internet Discussion Board on Shurikenjitsu is actually for the above Jujitsu club, no shuriken at all.

Don't visit this page, it crashes your browser: http://www.batcave.net/government/politics/anarchy/shuriken.htm OH, now they've disapppeared....typical

An introduction on ninjutsu shuriken - hardly worth the eftort http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/guns_and_weapons/shuriken.html

Gungfu.com has page full of misinformation on shuriken, eg judging distance for a turning hit with a *star-shaped* shuriken. Oh, they've taken it down now, and just have a page of stuff for sale.
http://gungfu.com/cart-htm/knives_throwers_throwing_darts.htm
http://www.gungfu.com/htm_knives/knives_throwers_ninjitsu.htm

Butokukai.com has a book, course and two rubber practice ninja stars for 16.95!!! Deal!!! http://www.butokukai.com/product194.html

http://www.theswordsmith.com/ has the above set of shuriken for 55 pounds, while the site above has them for $16.95. Whats the deal? Oh, now they're 42...

 

I don't know why I bother searching the web for shuriken sites, there's nothing worthwhile there. If you have aa site that you feel is worth a look, then email me, I'm done wasting my time looking...jason@pacific.net.au

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