Wind Breathing

**Wind Breathing** (風の呼吸, *Kaze no Kokyū*?) is one of the five main Breathing Styles derived directly from Sun Breathing.

## Overview

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. When utilized correctly, users of Wind Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating and manipulating wind that has a shade of light green when unleashing its techniques, causing the causing the wind to seemingly emanate from the user's weapon, surroundings or themselves.

This Breathing Style was created by Takeshi Hayate, one of Yoriichi Tsugikuni's students who attempted to learn Sun Breathing. However, Sosuke was unable to master it, so Yoriichi taught him a modified style that focused on purely offensive attacks, most of which utilized rotating movements to generate swift whirlwind-like slashes that greatly increase the wielder's striking range. This style perfectly suited Sosuke, and he named it after himself and the feature it represents. Thus, Wind Breathing was born.

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

After the death of Muzan Kibutsuji, Wind Breathing, like Sun Breathing and the other Breathing Styles, became a ritual dance known as the **Kazenokami Kagura** (風の神 神楽, *Kazenokami Kagura*?, lit. "Dance of the Wind God") offered to the wind god of Shinto religion, Fujin.

## Weaponry used with this Breathing Style

Most known users of the Wind Breathing have wielded Nichirin swords whose blade is green in color.

## Known Users

* Wind Breathing Users
* Kazenokami Kagura Users

## Techniques

Wind Breathing originally had a minimum of 9 known techniques and forms, with one more technique were added over the years toward the Taisho Era with 10 techniques now known during the Heisei era.

* **First Form: Dust Whirlwind Cutter** (壱ノ型: 鹿旋風・削ぎ, *Ichi no kata: Jin Senpū - Sogi*?) - The user dashes forward at blinding speeds while slashing continuously in a horizontal cyclone pattern.
* **Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind** (弐ノ型: 爪々・科戸風, *Ni no kata: Sōsō - Shinato Kaze*?) - 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** (参ノ型: 晴嵐風樹, *San no kata: Seiran Fūju*?) - The user swings their sword to slash around their body, creating a whirlwind around them that can defend them from incoming attacks and slice up their surroundings.
* **Fourth Form: Rising Dust Storm** (肆ノ型: 昇 上砂塵嵐, *Shi no kata: Shōjō Sajinran*?) - The user swings their blade downwards from several directions, releasing several slashes to strike their target.
* **Fifth Form: Cold Mountain Wind** (伍ノ型: 木枯らし颪, *Go no kata: Kogarashi Oroshi*?) - The user creates several circular arched slashes that increase in size from above their target.
* **Sixth Form: Black Wind Mountain Mist** (陸ノ型: 黒風烟嵐, *Roku no kata: Kokufū Enran*?) - The user rotates their body in an uppercut movement, creating an arcing slash.
* **Seventh Form: Gale, Sudden Gusts** (漆ノ型: 頸風・天狗風, *Shichi no kata: Keifū - Tengu Kaze*?) - 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** (捌ノ型: 初烈風斬り, *Hachi no kata: Sho Rekkaza Kiri*?) - 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** (玖ノ型: 韋駄天台風, *Ku no kata: Idaten Taifū*?) - The user backflips into the air and while upside-down, swings their blade to unleash a powerful gust of circular wind that slashes apart anything below.
* **Tenth Form: Breeze the Zephyr** (拾ノ型: 涼 風微風, *Jū no kata: Ryōfū Bifū*?) - Created by one of the Demon Slayer Families, the user will first backflip into the air before finally twirling upside-down while simultaneously swinging their sword to unleash a flurry of slashes below and around them, with each slash generating extremely powerful gusts and blasts of circular wind that slice and cut everything and powerful enough to uproot and crack the earth.

## Trivia

* The naming and kanji of **Ninth Form: Idaten Typhoon**, specifically 韋駄天 (Idaten, ***韋駄天***?) is based on the Japanese pronunciation of one of the Mahāyāna Boddhisatva, Skanda. He is a royal member of the Twenty-Four Protective Devas (貳拾肆諸天, *Nijūshi Shoten*?), a group of Dharmapāla (護法善神, *Gohōzenjin*?), venerated for protecting the Dharma. It is said that a few days after the passing and cremation of Gautama Buddha, evil demons robbed him of his tooth relic. In response to this, Skanda respected the Buddha's instruction to guard the Dharma. This lead to him defeating the demons and returned the relic.