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I always thought it was a weapon. Finding out it's a gardening tool is so crushing.

Kunai normally had a leaf-shaped blade and a handle with a ring on the pommel for attaching a rope. This would allow the kunai to be strapped to a ninja who would throw the weapon at some obstacle then tie the end of the rope with another obstacle and glide across the rope to the next obstacle. I am highly skeptical as to the validity of this statement. 70.20.30.123 02:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm restoring the long list of apperances in anime, games and such. I believe that otherwise it would be spontaneously reconstructed by random users, increasing the chances of accidental damage to the article. (As has happened before.) If you think this list doesn't belong on the page, perhaps a separate article should be created for the ninja related contents.

1 It's sad so many people think it's a weapon
2 Kanji
3 Description
4 WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

[edit] It's sad so many people think it's a weapon

But of course everyone is going to assume what the media says.

It seems like it would be a bit impractical as a throwing weapon, to be honest.

Don't get me wrong, though. Considering the far more espionage-oriented objectives and station of the real-world Ninjas of old, it may have been very handy for other purposes. Having a well-forged, well-sharpened one set amongst the rest of one's bric-a-brac could have given one a hidden, but powerful multi-purpose knife.

Addseale2 06:35, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kanji

Changed the kana spelling for kanji as indicated by the dictionary. If kana is more common for this word in contemporary Japanese then please, restore them. Leushenko (talk) 12:51, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Description

The introductory sentence is the same as is found here: [1]

I'm not sure if they used the text from wikipedia, or if one of this article's contributors used the text from that site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spacepirate09 (talk • contribs) 04:00, 9 January 2008 (UTC)