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Image:TenchuRFD Ayame 3.jpg|200px|thumb|Ayame (Tenchu)|Ayame, a kunoichi from the Tenchu video game series. Kunoichi (?????????) is the term for a female ninja. Female ninja were classified as part of the kamae of sui (water) and were cultivated to manipulate energy through preying on increased feelings of emotional satisfaction; like the ocean, they would draw out, only to come back, like a wave at riptide, in unexpected ways. These women, or kunoichi as they were called, were given special training in psychological skills and intuition. Taught to manipulate men high-up in the enemy hierarchy, they were known to conceal blades inside musical instruments and sex toys. Shimma kunoichi, ninja family members, were trained as spies who were taught not to falling in love|fall in love with their targets or lose sight of their ultimate goal after successful seduction. According to Rumiko Hayes, a neo-ninja black belt from a bujinkan influenced school and the wife of Stephen K. Hayes, head female agents were sent around the country to collect young female orphans, whom they raised with care. These orphan girls were forever indebted to their agents and would do whatever they were asked in terms of seducing men. Karima kunoichi were women who were not part of the clan but were temporarily hired as maids, mistresses, entertainers, fortunetellers, prostitutes, or artists. In contemporary times, female ninjas often fulfill the same roles as men, working in security and law enforcement. This is the history of the kunoichi, as it has changed vastly over the ages from skilled seductive assassins, to law enforcement and special/black ops. Nowadays, the term kunoichi is solely used in reference to female ninja; historically who were trained to deceive men and disguise themselves as geisha. However, modern novels, animes, mangas, films, and video games generally portray kunoichi to be fully trained in ninjutsu, much like their male counterparts. The term is thought to derive from the names of characters that resemble the three Stroke (Chinese character)|strokes in the Japanese language|Japanese kanji character for woman (???, onna); said in the order they are written: ku (???) - no (???) - ichi (???). However, this may be a modern fake etymology, as the ninja of the time wrote it as ????????? (one of nine) or ?????? (nine one); these transcriptions supposedly come from the fact that all humans have nine openings in common, but women have one more in addition; hence a woman is "one of nine" or "nine plus one". This however could be another fake etymology. It is also worth noting that the "?????????" writing requires the use of one character from each Japanese "alphabet". First hiragana, then katakana, then kanji. While hiragana and kanji can exist in the same word, katakana generally cannot appear in conjunction with the others. That is the language factor of the name's origins. Another proposed etymology, possibly as spurious as the others, would derive the term from ??? ??? ("n??" : talent) ???, meaning nine talents in one person, though no creditable source lists these "nine talents". <!-- Please sort their (first) names alphabetically --> Image:Taki SC1 03.jpg|200px|thumb|Taki (Soul Calibur)|Taki from Soul Calibur
Category:Japanese terms Category:Ninjutsu Category:Women de:Kunoichi es:Kunoichi ja:????????? th:??????????????????????????? zh:????????? This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kunoichi".
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