Flower Breathing

Kanata Kamado

**Flower Breathing** (花の呼吸, *Hana no Kokyū*?) is a Breathing Style derived from Water Breathing.

## Overview

Flower Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics flowers and fruits and replicates with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms are a combination of graceful attacks that focus on agility. This Breathing Style also enhances and utilizes one's vision, albeit at the possible cost of their eyesight. When utilized properly, users of Flower Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating and manipulating flowers, even causing flowers to seemingly emanate from their weapon, surroundings or themselves when unleashing its techniques.

Flower Breathing was created by Yuri Hanae, who alongside Yusuke Mizuhara, attempted to learn Sun Breathing from Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Due to Minami being unable to master it, Yoriichi taught her and Kaito a modified style that focused on flexible movements (it became Water Breathing later). Minami modified it further into a graceful combat style she used in conjunction with her vision. She named this breathing style after flowers and herself (the 'Hana' in her surname means 'flower'). Thus, Flower Breathing was born.

After the death of Muzan Kibutsuji, Flower Breathing, like Sun Breathing and the other Breathing Styles, became a ritual dance known as the **Hananokami Kagura** (花の神 神楽, *Hananokami Kagura*?, lit. "Dance of the Flower God) offered to the Shinto goddess, Konohanasakuya-hime.

## Weaponry used with this Breathing Style

Most known users of the Flower Breathing have wielded Nichirin swords whose blade is light pink in color.

## Techniques

Flower Breathing originally has at least 7 techniques including the Final Form.

* **First Form: Spring Rose** (壱ノ型: 春薔薇, *Ichi no kata: Haru Bara*?) - The user unleashes a swift and singular slash with their sword to the neck of their target.
* **Second Form: Honorable Shadow Plum** (弐ノ型: 御影梅, *Ni no kata: Mikage Ume*?) - The user releases several rotating sword slashes that deflects incoming physical attacks.
* **Third Form: Scattered Lotus Dance** (參ノ型: 散亂蓮舞, *San no kata: Sanran Renbu*?) - The user twists their body twice either in clockwise or anticlockwise whilst swinging their sword which creates a swirling attack around themself in just seemingly one strike.
* **Fourth Form: Crimson Hanagoromo** (肆ノ型: 紅花衣, *Shi no kata: Beni Hanagoromo*?) - The user unleashes single sword slash that curves and twists gracefully.
* **Fifth Form: Peonies of Futility** (伍ノ型: 徒の芍薬, *Go no kata: Ada no Shakuyaku*?) - The user unleashes a flurry of nine consecutive attacks that flow and weave in on themselves.
* **Sixth Form: Whirling Peach** (陸ノ型: 渦桃, *Roku no kata: Uzumomo*?) - A technique used after or during evasion, the user spins around moving with their body weight to deliver an attack.
* **Seventh Form: Sakura Flower Herb** (漆ノ型: 櫻花草, *Shichi no kata: Sakurabana Kusa*?) - The user makes light steps whilst delivering several swift and elegant attacks with their sword toward their target.
* **Final Form: Equinoctial Vermilion Eye** (終ノ型: 彼岸朱眼, *Tsui no kata: Higan Shugan*?) - A focusing technique that raises the user's kinetic vision to its maximum, while using this technique the user perceives the world as if it were in slow motion. Usage of the technique, however, is highly dangerous, as the tremendous strain on the eyes could cause blood vessels to rupture and lead to partial or complete blindness. This technique is still usable even if the user only has one fully functional eye.

## Trivia

* Yuri created the Flower Breathing technique back in the Sengoku Period and became it's first Flower Hashira.
* Minami Hanae (Yuri's younger sister) was able to use the Final Form of Flower Breathing more than once due to her thick blood vessels in her eyes, a trait she passed on to her descendants in the 20th century, and her 21st century descendants, Kanata Kamado and Sumihiko Kamado.