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The Land of Wind (風の国, Kaze no Kuni) is a geographical feature in the Naruto anime and manga series. It has a typically dry and windy climate, and is covered in large deserts as a result. Sandstorms are a common occurrence.

The Land of Wind is home to Sunagakure. It had been relatively uninvolved with politics until recent times, and even had a peace treaty signed with the Land of Fire. The lord ruling it, however, has been systematically cutting down its military force and transferring missions he would normally address to his own country's hidden village to Konohagakure. It conspired with Otogakure to launch a surprise attack and hopefully destroy Konohagakure. The ninja of Sunagakure tend to use wind and sand-based jutsu.

Sunagakure

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Sunagakure (砂隠れの里, Sunagakure no Sato, literally "Village Hidden Among Sand" or "Village Hidden in the Sand") is one of the five great ninja villages, and as such has a Kage, known as the Kazekage, as its leader. With its military forces being scaled down by the Land of Wind's feudal lord, the Fourth Kazekage realized that they had to increase the quality of each ninja to maintain a military force (Gaara is just one result of that).

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Sunagakure

As more time passed, the lord started commissioning Konoha with requests he should have been making to Sunagakure. On top of that, he began cutting back on Sunagakure's budget. The Fourth Kazekage realized that if he didn't act quickly, Sunagakure would be in danger of disappearing, so he joined forces with Otogakure in an attempt to destroy Konoha and force the lord to re-establish Sunagakure's military force if he wished for his country to continue existing. With the failure of the attack and the death of the Fourth Kazekage caused by the betrayal of Otogakure, Sunagakure re-allied with Konoha, and Gaara eventually became the Fifth Kazekage.

Land of Wind's daimyo

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Land of Wind's Daimyo

The Land of Wind's daimyo (風の国の大名, Kaze no Kuni no Daimyō) is the Daimyo (warlord) of the Land of Wind. He is responsible for the budget cuts to Sunagakure that eventually lead to the invasion of Konohagakure.

Kazekages

Sunagakure has had five Kazekages (風影, Wind Shadow) since its foundation.

First Kazekage

  • Age: ? (deceased)
  • Rank: Kazekage
  • Height: ?
  • Weight: ?
  • Birthday: ?
  • Blood Type: ?

The First Kazekage (初代風影, Shodai Kazekage) was probably the founder or one of the founders of Sunagakure. He wore a mask similar to Kakashi Hatake.

Second Kazekage

  • Age: ? (deceased)
  • Rank: Kazekage
  • Height: ?
  • Weight: ?
  • Birthday: ?
  • Blood Type: ?

Not much is known about the Second Kazekage (二代目風影, Nidaime Kazekage).

Third Kazekage

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Third Kazekage
  • Age: ? (deceased)
  • Rank: Kazekage
  • Height: ?
  • Weight: ?
  • Birthday: ?
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The Third Kazekage (三代目風影, Sandaime Kazekage) is considered to be the strongest Kazekage in the history of Sunagakure. He was kidnapped by an unknown enemy, but was never found due to the outbreak of war that forced the village to end their search and presume him dead. Sasori turned out to be his killer, and had converted the Third's body into his strongest puppet, which he used against Chiyo and Sakura Haruno, and was destroyed in the same battle.

The Third had a special genetic trait that allowed him to convert his chakra into magnetic forces. This ability, based on the jutsu used by the previous host of Shukaku, allowed him control iron powder to create his Iron Sand (砂鉄, Satetsu). While it is unknown if this was a kekkei genkai, Sasori was able to retain the ability when converting the Third into a puppet and added poison to the Iron Sand to increase its lethality. Sasori was able to shoot the Iron sand like bullets as Iron Sand Drizzle (砂鉄時雨, Satetsu Shigure), as well as use Iron Sand World Order (砂鉄界法, Satetsu Kaihō) to create an expanding sphere of spikes that engulfs the entire area it is used in.

Fourth Kazekage

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Fourth Kazekage

The Fourth Kazekage (四代目風影, Yondaime Kazekage) was the previous leader of Sunagakure. He is the father of Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro, and husband of Karura. By his order, the one-tailed Shukaku was sealed within Gaara so that he could become the village's ultimate weapon. However, as Gaara grew and his abilities began to manifest, the Fourth realized that this had been a poor choice and started to view Gaara as a failed experiment who was a threat to the inhabitants of Sunagakure. In time, the Fourth began issuing orders for Gaara's assassination, none of which were ever successful.

The Fourth was also the one to join with Orochimaru in his attack on Konoha, hoping to teach the daimyo a lesson and to re-establish the Sunagakure's military force. Things, however, did not go as planned for him; just before the Chunin exam's third stage, where his attack was planned to take place, he was betrayed and assassinated by his ally, Orochimaru, who stole his identity to get close to the Hokage.

Fifth Kazekage

Main article: Gaara

Elders

Chiyo

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Chiyo

Chiyo, often called "old-lady Chiyo" or "Granny Chiyo" (チヨバア, Chiyo-baa) by the Sunagakure villagers, is the village's poison and puppet specialist. She and her brother Ebizo are highly revered in Sunagakure and are known as the Siblings (御姉弟, Gokyōdai). Chiyo is very knowledgeable when it comes to handling poisons and used her skills often during the Third Secret Ninja War, only to be countered numerous times by Tsunade's medical expertise, which Chiyo claims "drove me batty". This caused Chiyo to hold a grudge against Tsunade, who she has come to call "that slug-girl" (あのナメクジ娘, Ano Namekuji-musume).

Chiyo took care of her grandson, Sasori, during his childhood due to the death of his parents. At some point, she taught Sasori how to use the Puppet Technique, and Sasori used his newfound knowledge to turn the corpses of his parents into puppets. Wanting Sasori to be able to feel love from his puppet parents, Chiyo developed a jutsu that would allow her to bring puppets to life at the cost of her own. Before she could use this ability for Sasori, however, he left the village, leaving Chiyo with the desire to see her grandson again. In Sasori's absence, Chiyo installed a chakra shield into her right arm, giving herself a defensive measure to use in desperate situations. Chiyo would go on to seal the One-Tailed Shukaku inside of Gaara under the orders of the Fourth Kazekage. After this, Chiyo and Ebizo removed themselves from the affairs of Sunagakure and spent their time together, where Chiyo would play jokes on her brother by pretending she had died just to scare him.

When Sasori returns to Suna years later and kidnaps Gaara, Chiyo joins the retrieval team in the hopes of getting to see Sasori. As the team splits up to fight Sasori and his partner, Chiyo is forced to fight Sasori alongside Sakura Haruno. Using her Puppet Technique to manipulate Sasori's movements and assist Sakura in battle, the two are able gain the upperhand on Sasori. When Sasori brings out 100 of his own puppets to fight the two, Chiyo uses the ten puppets of Chikamatsu to combat his puppet army. As Sasori tries one last effort at defeating Chiyo, Chiyo stabs him through the heart with the puppets of his parents, allowing him to be close to them in death as he couldn't be in life.

After reuniting with the rest of the retrieval team, Gaara is found to have died. Naruto Uzumaki, angry that Gaara died because of the Shukaku sealed within him, lashes out at Chiyo for her part in giving him this fate. In an attempt to apologize for what she had done, Chiyo tries to revive Gaara. Although she is initially unable to due to being too weak, Naruto donates some of his chakra to help finish the process. With Gaara's revival, Chiyo offers her blessings to Naruto as the next Hokage, and dies peacefully with her view of the world changed in the end thanks to Naruto and Sakura.

Ebizo

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  • Rank: N/A (retired)
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  • Seiyu: Ken Shiroyama

Ebizo (エビゾウ, Ebizō) is called "old-man Ebizo" (エビゾウジイ, Ebizō-jii) by the Sand villagers. He and his older sister Chiyo are highly revered in Sunagakure and are known as the Siblings (御姉弟, Gokyōdai). He is Sasori's great-uncle. While saddened by his sister's death, he couldn't help but smile on how peaceful she looked.

Jonin

Baki

Baki

Baki (バキ) is the sensei of Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari, and he oversaw the three's progress during the Chunin Exams. After he converses with Kabuto Yakushi about the planned invasion of Konoha, he offers to eliminate the eavesdropper of their conversation as a sign of trust. Although the eavesdropper, Hayate Gekko, is able to strike him, Baki's unavoidable Blade of Wind (Blade of Wind, [風の刃] Error: {{nihongo}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help), Kaze no Yaiba) English TV "Wind Sword" kills him. Baki led the fight with the Sand and Sound shinobi in the Konoha stadium during the invasion and had an unfinished duel with Genma Shiranui.

In Part II, he seems to be serving on Sunagakure's advisory council. When Kankuro was injured by Sasori, Baki seemed to be very concerned about Kankuro's condition.

Kankuro

Main article: Kankuro

Temari

Main article: Temari

Yura

Main article: Yura

Other Villagers

Karura

  • Age: ? (deceased)

Karura (加琉羅) is the wife of the former Kazekage, and the mother of Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari. Against her wishes, her husband had the spirit of Shukaku sealed within her unborn son. She died while giving birth to Gaara as a result of this. Before she died, she cursed Sunagakure, hoping her son would avenge her death and the horror she had been put through. Due to his uncle's words concerning the nature of his powers, Gaara became confused and came to view Shukaku as an extension of his mother, and the sand as a manifestation of her love. During his battle with Sasuke, Gaara tried to talk to her, but his words strongly indicate he was speaking with Shukaku.

Trivia

  • The name "Karura" is made up of three kanji. Ka (加) means "Addition" or "Include", Ru (琉) means "Lapis lazuli" and Ra (羅) comes from the word Ashura (阿修羅) "Fighting demon". In Japanese folklore, Lapis lazuli is a sacred stone in which the power of Buddha dwells. So the name Karura could be interpreted as meaning "Addition of (Buddha's) power to the demon". This is exactly what Karura did: she gave the demon more power by feeding it with her hatred.
  • Karura is the name of a Japanese man-bird deity similar to the Hindu Garuda.

Matsuri

Matsuri debuts in the final pre-timeskip arc as a student of Sunagakure's new ninja school. She is the only person out of the entire class to choose Gaara to be her teacher and refers to him as "Gaara-sensei." She has a fear of weapons after witnessing the murder of her parents. She was kidnapped by the Shitenshounin to try to lure Gaara out so that they could steal the Shukaku's chakra to use in resurrecting Takumi Village's founder Seimei, and thereby take revenge on the five great nations who had been oppressing their village for the past century. After being freed, she saves Naruto from a fatal attack from Seimei using her jouhyou after realizing that weapons can be used to protect comrades. After Seimei's defeat, she returns to Sunagakure with Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari. But before she leaves, she asks Shikamaru to tell Naruto that he had made her understand what Gaara was trying to tell her and that she will continue to train as Gaara's student. Strangely enough, Matsuri looks similar to Gaara's mother which could be the reason Gaara decided to train her.

Matsuri makes her first post-timeskip appearance in episode 12 of Shippuden as part of the Suna ninja team Temari had assembled to aid in rescuing Gaara. Since then, she, along with Temari's team, have been sent to patrol a border crossing.

Trivia

  • "Matsuri" is the Japanese word for "festival".

Monzaemon Chikamatsu

Monzaemon Chikamatsu is the inventor of the art of puppetry. Originally using puppets as a source of entertainment, Chikamatsu worked diligently with several shinobi to convert the talent into a unique form of combat. Eventually, he created the Puppet Technique, in which chakra strings are used to control puppets. Being the creator of the technique, Chikamatsu was the very first puppet master, and as such he created the ten Chikamatsu puppets, which are powerful enough to take down an entire castle in the right hands. It is unknown how Chiyo acquired them, but she's more than skilled in their use, as seen when she uses them against Sasori.

Monzaemon is named after Chikamatsu Monzaemon, a Japanese playwright credited with the creation of Japanese Bunraku, or puppet theater.

Sasori's parents

Sasori's parents died when he was young, leaving him in the care of Chiyo. After learning the art of puppetry, Sasori turned the corpses of his parents into human puppets in the hopes that doing so would help him feel loved. Because they were still only puppets, Sasori lost interest in the two and left them behind when he left Sunagakure. With his departure, the puppets came into the possession of Chiyo, and she added weapons to both so that they could be used in battle. During Chiyo's battle with Sasori years later, Chiyo uses the puppets against Sasori, though he easily disables both. Despite this, Chiyo uses the puppets to stab Sasori through the heart in the form of a hug, allowing him to be close to them in death as he couldn't be in life.

Sasori's parents are never named; they are only referred to as "Mother" (母, Haha) and "Father" (父, Chichi).

Yashamaru

Yashamaru (夜叉丸) was a medic-nin, the younger brother of Karura, and thus the uncle of Gaara. At first, Gaara thought that he was the only one that cared about him. Yashamaru taught Gaara about physical pain, emotional pain and love; concepts Gaara was completely unaware of in his childhood. He was commanded by the Fourth Kazekage to assassinate Gaara, but was given the choice in deciding whether he wanted to proceed or not. Yashamaru willingly accepted the command in order to avenge his older sister's premature death. The assassination attempt, however, ended in a desperate suicide mission and ultimately failed. Before he died, he told Gaara that no one had ever really loved him, not even him, despite trying his hardest to. This left Gaara even more of an emotional wreck than he already was. His attempt on his nephew's life caused Gaara to become psychotic. Yashamaru's last words, to Gaara, were "This is it. Please die."

Trivia

  • In the Polish, French and Italian versions of the Naruto manga, Yashamaru is portrayed as female rather than male.
  • Yashamaru's name, 夜叉丸, is composed of three Kanji. The first two, Yasha (夜叉) is the Japanese name for the Hindu Yaksha. Yakshas are usually portrayed as having two sides: a darker, more sinister side, and a benevolent, lovable side. Yashamaru's betrayal could be a reference to this "dark side" of Yakshas. Maru (丸) is a common ending for male names.

Sources

  1. First Official Data Book (秘伝・臨の書キャラクターオフィシャルデータBOOK, Hiden: Rin no Sho Character Official Data Book)
  2. Second Official Data Book (秘伝・闘の書キャラクターオフィシャルデータBOOK, Hiden: Tō no Sho Character Official Data Book)
  3. Jump's 2nd Great Hero Book's Mini Data Book (秘伝・翔の書オフィシャルキャラクターデータBOOK mini, Hiden: Shō no Sho Official Character Data Book mini)
  4. Naruto manga chapters
  5. Based on character's ability and status
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