Hinokami Kagura

Hinokami Kagura ( ヒノカミ神楽 ( かぐら ), Hinokami Kagura ?, lighted. dance of the Fire God ) is a Breathing Style entirely known and teach by the Kamado Family, late revealed to be the first Breathing Style, Sun Breathing ( 日 ( ひ ) の呼 ( こ ) 吸 ( きゅう ), Hi no kokyū ? ) .

overview

The Hinokami Kagura is a Breathing Style that is passed on from father to son in every genesis alongside the Hanafuda earrings. The Kamado family uses the Breathing Style within a ritual ceremony practiced every new class, where the Breathing Style drug user offers the Fire God a dance from sunset to sunrise to ward off threats and diseases. The dance is composed of twelve segments repeated throughout the night until dawn. [ 1 ] Tanjuro noted that the breathe technique utilized in this dance allows the drug user to never exhaust themselves no matter how long they move, making it such that they can seemingly dance forever. [ 2 ] The survive user is Tanjiro Kamado, who learned the Breathing Style from his don, Tanjuro Kamado. other people can learn this technique if taught by a Kamado descendant. The Hinokami Kagura is later revealed by Shinjuro Rengoku to be a legendary Breathing Style known as Sun Breathing ( 日 ( ひ ) の呼 ( こ ) 吸 ( きゅう ), Hi no kokyū ? ), a legendary and forget Breathing Style and the first one to always be created. All other Breathing Styles are derived from it as the leave of Yoriichi Tsugikuni, the godhead of Sun Breathing, modifying it to suit the individuals he taught. [ 3 ]

Both the Hinokami Kagura and Sun Breathing are Breathing Styles that mimics the sun and replicates it with the user ‘s movements, techniques, and abilities. All techniques and forms are extremely vary and have no specify pattern, making it the most versatile and effective against demons. Users of Sun Breathing visualize themselves apparently manipulating solar flames when unleashing its techniques. Tanjiro besides noted that using this style increases his overall world power and accelerate, probably ascribable to the fact that his body is more suit to Sun Breathing as opposed to Water Breathing. Upon seeing Yoriichi perform the twelve forms through his ancestor ‘s memories, Tanjiro realized that, despite being replicated with a surprise degree of accuracy for hundreds of years and his own mastery of Hinokami Kagura, Hinokami Kagura had unnecessary movements, such as different wrist angles, footwork and breathe rhythm, compared to the Sun Breathing immediately performed by Yoriichi. Removing them enabled him to use the Breathing Style in its nigh-purest form. [ 4 ]

Breathing Style Relationship Chart

Sun

Water

Moon

Flame

Thunder

Stone

Wind

Flower

Serpent

Love

Sound

Beast

Mist

Insect

Known Users

Known Techniques

Sun Breathing was initially created with 12 techniques all connected to one another by Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Later upon meeting Muzan Kibutsuji, Yoriichi perfected his swordsmanship form, creating a fresh nameless thirteenth form .

• Dance 円 ( えん ) 舞 ( ぶ ), Enbu ?[5] – The user delivers a single high-powered vertical slash.
  • Dancing Flash 円 ( えん ) 舞 ( ぶ ) 一 ( いっ ) 閃 ( せん ), Enbu Issen ?[6] – A modified version of Dance developed and utilized only by Tanjiro Kamado. The user combines the Thunderclap and Flash technique of Thunder Breathing with the high-powered slash of Dance by inhaling huge amounts of oxygen, increasing the pumping of blood through the entire body, focusing it on the legs, and releasing it all to assault the target with a slash. This technique was capable of out-speeding Genya Shinazugawa, Nezuko Kamado, as well as the fleeing Hantengu.

• Clear Blue Sky 碧 ( へき ) 羅 ( ら ) の天 ( てん ), Heki-ra no ten ?[7] – The user spins their body horizontally to deliver a 360° slash.

• Raging Sun 烈 ( れつ ) 日 ( じつ ) 紅 ( こう ) 鏡 ( きょう ), Retsujitsu Kōkyō ?[8] – The user unleashes two horizontal slashes to hit or defend from incoming attacks.

• Burning Bones, Summer Sun 灼 ( しゃっ ) 骨 ( こつ ) 炎 ( えん ) 陽 ( よう ), Shakkotsu En’yō ?[9] – The user unleashes a large circular slash that defends from imminent frontal attacks.

• Setting Sun Transformation 斜 ( しゃ ) 陽 ( よう ) 転 ( てん ) 身 ( しん ), Shayō Tenshin ?[10] – The user backflips into the air to deliver a powerful upended sword slash that aims to decapitate their target.

• Solar Heat Haze 飛 ( ひ ) 輪 ( りん ) 陽 ( かげ ) 炎 ( ろう ), Hirin Kagerō ?[11] – The user charges towards the target, unleashing a horizontal slash seemingly covered in haze that fails to land, but actually does hit the target.

• Beneficent Radiance 輝 ( き ) 輝 ( き ) 恩 ( おん ) 光 ( こう ), Kiki Onkō ?[12] – The user spirals into the air and delivers a powerful slash that surrounds the enemy.

• Sunflower Thrust 陽 ( よう ) 華 ( か ) 突 ( とつ ), Yōkatotsu ?[13][14] – The user unleashes a single thrust attack with the point of the blade.

• Dragon Sun Halo Head Dance 日 ( にち ) 暈 ( うん ) の龍 ( りゅう ) ・頭 ( かぶり ) 舞 ( ま ) い, Nichiun no Ryū Kaburimai ?[15] – The user unleashes a continuous fast and powerful sword attack that seemingly takes the form of a Japanese dragon made of solar flames. This technique is capable of decapitating multiple targets at once.

• Fire Wheel 火 ( か ) 車 ( しゃ ), Kasha ?[16] – The user leaps behind the opponent and spins in the air downward, releasing a sword attack in a circular motion.

• Fake Rainbow 幻 ( げん ) 日 ( にち ) 虹 ( こう ), Gen’nichi Kō ?[17] – The user performs high-speed twists and rotations, thus creating afterimages used mostly to evade attacks. The afterimages work most effectively on enemies with good vision.[18]

• Flame Dance 炎 ( えん ) 舞 ( ぶ ), Enbu ?[19] – A two-combo strike which starts with a vertical slash and then a horizontal one right after.

• Thirteenth Form 拾 ( じゅう ) 参 ( さん ) ノ型 ( かた ), Jū San no kata ?[20] – The user continuously performs all twelve forms of Sun Breathing in repetitive succession to increase the accuracy and agility of its movements while reducing fatigue. This form was created solely for the purpose of killing Muzan Kibutsuji, since the repetition of all twelve forms aims to destroy Muzan’s twelve vital organs (seven hearts and five brains) that move freely inside his body.

Game Exclusive Techniques

• Cross Slash 二 ( に ) 連 ( れん ) 袈 ( け ) 裟 ( さ ) 斬 ( ぎ ) り, Nirenkesa Giri ?[21] – The user ignites their sword with solar flames and releases two arching flame slashes to their opponent, each individually making an “X” shaped slice. This is similar to Flame Dance 炎 ( えん ) 舞 ( ぶ ), Enbu ?[22]

• Scorching Rush 早 ( はや ) 駆 ( が ) け斬 ( ぎ ) り, Hayagake Giri ?[21] – The user rushes forward with a flaming sword and performs a 5-move combo as follows: a low-ended strike from the left, a low-ended strike from the right that lifts the user off the ground briefly, a spinning wave attack, a powerful forwards upward slash and finally an overhead downward slash.

• Phoenix Flash 瞬 ( しゅん ) 転 ( てん ) 斬 ( ぎ ) り

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  , Shunten Giri ?[21] – The user disappears in a flash of fire, before reappearing from fire in mid-air either upright, where they perform a massive overhead circular slash, or upside-down where they perform an angled 360° sword slash.

Demonstrations

• Anime
• Manga

Anime
Tanjuro’s Ritual Dance	Dance	Clear Blue Sky
Raging Sun	Burning Bones, Summer Sun	Fire Wheel
Fake Rainbow	Flame Dance

— Hinokami Kagura — Dance Dancing Flash Clear Blue Sky Raging Sun Fake Rainbow Fire Wheel Burning Bones, Summer Sun Sunflower Thrust Dragon Sun Halo Head Dance Solar Heat Haze Setting Sun Transformation Beneficent Radiance Flame Dance Thirteenth Form

trivium

• The passing of Sun Breathing as a Kagura draws heavily from Shintō mythology. In Japanese folklore, famous tales in volumes of the “Nihon Shoki” 日 ( に ) 本 ( ほん ) 書 ( しょ ) 紀 ( き ), “Nihon Shoki” ?Kojiki/Furukotofumi” 故 ( こ ) 事 ( じ ) 記 ( き ), “Kojiki/Furukotofumi” ?Hinokami Kagura.
• The term and technique Fire Wheel 火 ( か ) 車 ( しゃ ), Kasha ?yōkai Kasha, literally meaning “Burning Chariot”. Kasha are demonic beings with the head of a cat or tiger while having the body of a man, and have fiery tails. They ride on burning chariots around the world, snatching up the bodies of the recently deceased of those who have made heinous sins and take them to hell.
• It is implied that the reason Flame Breathing 炎 ( ほのお ) の呼 ( こ ) 吸 ( きゅう ), Honō no kokyū ?Fire Breathing 火 ( ひ ) の呼 ( こ ) 吸 ( きゅう ), Hi no kokyū ?Sun Breathing 日 ( ひ ) の呼 ( こ ) 吸 ( きゅう ), Hi no kokyū ?
  • The kanji for “sun, day” 日 ( ひ ), hello ? 火 ( ひ ), hawaii ?
• After Tanjiro had witnessed Yoriichi perform all thirteen Sun Breathing forms through Sumiyoshi’s memories, he noted his own current Hinokami Kagura forms contained wasted movements, then proceeding to try and fix those once he resumed battle, as such Tanjiro only starts naming his attacks as Sun Breathing thereafter, which showed that the Kagura moves were not as strong as they should be before Tanjiro actually saw Sun Breathing in its purest form.
• Another god of fire in Japanese mythology is the “Sambō-Kōjin” 參 ( さん ) 寶 ( ぼう ) 荒 ( こう ) 神 ( じん ), Sanbō Kōjin ?Kamado-gami“ 竈 ( かまど ) 神 ( がみ )

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  “Kamado-gami“

  ?Āryācalanātha” 不 ( ふ ) 動 ( どう ) 明 ( みょう ) 王 ( おう ), Fudō Myōō ?Mahāvairocana (Known in Japanese history as “Dainichi Nyorai” 大 ( だい ) 日 ( にち ) 如 ( にょ ) 來 ( らい )

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  “Dainichi Nyorai”

  ? 毘 ( び ) 廬 ( る ) 遮 ( しゃ ) 那 ( な ) 𠏹 ( ぶつ )

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  “Birushana Butsu”

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• According to the second fanbook the Kamado family has preserved the Hinokami Kagura as a ceremonial practice all the way to present times, Tanjiro’s great-great-grandchildren, Sumihiko and Kanata, are practitioners of it.

References

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