Wind Breathing

**Wind Breathing** is one of the five Breathing Styles derived directly from Sun Breathing.

Wind Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics wind, specifically powerful torrents of air and whirlwinds, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve purely offensive attacks, most of which utilizing rotating movements to generate swift whirlwind-like slashes that greatly increase the wielder's striking range or utilizing the air around them to deliver sharp sickle-shaped attacks. Users of Wind Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating and manipulating wind when unleashing its techniques.

This Breathing Style is also extremely reminiscent of the real life swordsmanship style, Jigen-ryū, a sword wielding style that emphasizes on the opening strike and high stances.

## Kazekami Kagura(Dance of Wind God)

The Kazekami Kagura is a Breathing Style that is passed on from father to son in every generation. The Takada family uses the Breathing Style within a ritual ceremony practiced every new year, where the Breathing Style user offers the God of Wind 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. Kazejiro noted that the breathing technique utilized in this dance allows the user to never exhaust themselves no matter how long they move, making it such that they can seemingly dance forever. The last user is Kazetaro Takada, who learned the Breathing Style from his father, Kazejiro Takada. Other people can learn this technique if taught by a Takada descendant.

## Techniques

### Wind Breathing

* **First Form: Dust Whirlwind Cutter:** The user dashes forward at blinding speeds and slashes continuously in a horizontal cyclone pattern.

* **Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind:** The user lifts the sword upwards towards the right, above their head and unleashes four vertical slashes at once down on the enemy resembling claws.

* **Third Form: Clean Storm Wind Tree:** The user unleashes a whirlwind of slashes around their body that can defend them from incoming attacks and slice up their surroundings.

* **Fourth Form: Rising Dust Storm:** The user releases several slashes above them from below their target.

* **Fifth Form: Cold Mountain Wind:** The user creates several circular arched slashes that increase in size from above their target.

* **Sixth Form: Black Wind Mountain Mist:** The user rotates their body in an uppercut movement, creating an arcing slash.

* **Seventh Form: Gale, Sudden Gusts:** The user leaps into the air while swinging their blade which generates gale-force winds to shred their opponent apart.

* **Eighth Form: Primary Gale Slash:** The user leaps into the air and swings their blade which generates circular torrents of wind that slices up the opponent instantly.

* **Ninth Form: Idaten Typhoon:** The user backflips into the air and while upside-down, unleashes a powerful gust of circular wind that slashes apart anything below.
* **Tenth Form: Calm Wind:** The personal creation of the current Wind Hashira, Yoshimi Shizuoka. The user ceases all body movements and enters a state of complete tranquility, deflecting, blocking and cutting any incoming attacks with imperceptible speed with their blade. However, its effectiveness is limited as fast and numerous attacks can break through.

### Kazekami Kagura(Dance of Wind God)

* **Whirlwind Slash:** The user leaps into the air and delivers a powerful single high-powered spinning horizontal slash.
* **Circular Gale Striking:** The user spins their body horizontally to deliver a 360° slash.
* **Tornado Lunge:** The user unleashes a single thrust attack with the point of the blade.
* **Purifying Wind:** The swordsman leaps far back into the air and swings their sword to release a devastating cyclone that carries the opponent far away.
* **Ordnance Gale Slash:** The swordsman jumps, and release a violent projectile of wind.
* **Lotus Tempest:** The user spirals into the air and delivers a powerful slash that surrounds the enemy.
* **Breeze Summon Falcon:** The user unleashes a continuous fast and powerful sword attack that seemingly takes the form of a Falcon made of Breeze. This technique is capable of decapitating multiple targets at once.
* **Seventeenth Form:** The user continuously performs all sixteen forms of **Wind Breathing** in repetitive succession to increase the accuracy and agility of his movements while reducing fatigue. This form was created solely for the purpose of killing Akuryo Fumetsu, since the repetition of all sixteen forms aims to destroy Akuryo's twelve vital organs (seven hearts and five brains) that move freely inside his body.

## Travia

* *Wind Breathing user, if the swordsmanship is reached to the maximum level of Hashira, the sword color will turn pale green.  But an exception for Kazetaro who wasn't Hashira, but the sword color was pale to almost white.  but still remain green  but gradually pale*
* *Unlike other Breathing Styles, Wind Breathing has a sword color that weakens as swordsmanship improves.  At the Wind Hashira level, the sword color is very pale.*