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Topics >> by kendosuede05 >> not_known_factual_statements not_known_factual_statements Photos Topic maintained by kendosuede05 (see all topics) INDICATORS ON THROWING STARS - TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION - TSA YOU SHOULD KNOW While ninja tradition has actually long been popular in Japan, the masked assassins experienced an appeal boom during the Reagan years in the United States, a natural advancement of the martial-arts motion picture fad. While the 1970s saw Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon (1973 ), the 1980s ushered in a glut of B films like Enter the Ninja (1981 ), which worked throwing stars into its box art, and Pray for Death (1985 ), with a poster that included a ninja cloaked in a face cowl with a shuriken stuck right above the brow. Punisher 3-Piece Throwing Star Set For Sale - All Ninja Gear: Largest Selection of Ninja Weapons - Throwing Stars - Nunchucks We saw shuriken flung in comic books and animations like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We even chucked virtual ones in computer game like( 1988 ). Key Reference was no mishap that a person of the most preferred G.I. Joe figures was the ninja Storm Shadow, who happily showed 2 shuriken in his waist sash. Ninja Throwing Stars I wanted one much like the by-then renowned throwing stars I saw in movies and computer game. Sure, I was young and naive. I didn't understand about the shuriken's true history. I didn't know that the ninja star in fact came in an array of designs, from square to x-shaped. Not all tossing stars were even, well, tossed; some were used for slashing and stabbing. I didn't understand that a lot of ninja iconography had been developed as late as the 19th century by Japanese artists and writersdespite that ninjutsu, the art of the ninja, had actually existed for centuries prior. Artist Katsuhika Hokusai, for instance, is often credited with very first portraying ninja in their iconic black outfitsa costume obviously motivated by the dark clothing of kabuki stagehands. MORE ABOUT SPACE NINJA THROWING STARS ESSENTIAL T-SHIRT - REDBUBBLE My parents would not let me buy a metal shuriken, fearing, maybe smartly, that I 'd mistakenly slice myself. Not disheartened, I conserved up my allowance for a practice set of foam stars. "Practice" required my leaping on the bed and tossing the stars around my bed room. I believed I was quite badass. By "genuine," he suggested it was metal and might injure. The silver metal sparkled when he took it out of the black velour box. The star was stabby-stabby sharp, and we did what any kids would do: we took it outside to toss at a tree. The shuriken felt heavy in my hand, and I was currently imagining how it would slice through the air. kendosuede05 has not yet selected any galleries for this topic.