InuYasha special items and attacks

This is a list of special items and attacks in the InuYasha anime and manga series.

• InuYasha
  • Kotodama no Nenju — A magical rosary made by Kikyo; and later invoked by Kaede; to subjugate InuYasha when Kagome says "osuwari" or "sit".
  • Fire Rat Robe — InuYasha's kimono. It is strong like armor and is resistant to fire.
  • Claws of Steel (Sankontessō) — InuYasha's basic attack, he slashes opponent with his claws. Known in the English anime as Iron Reaver Soul Stealer, or just Iron Reaver.
  • Hijinkessō — InuYasha's special attack. He creates blood razors to cut his enemies. Known in the English anime as Blades of Blood.
  • Tessaiga — InuYasha's sword, made from one of his father's fangs. Tessaiga has three attacks:
    • Wind Scar (風の傷, Kaze no Kizu): Special attack that can kill 100 yōkai with one strike. InuYasha learned it by himself while fighting Sesshomaru, but it was first used to save Miroku from yōkai.
    • Backlash Wave (爆流破, Bakuryūha): Tessaiga's ultimate attack, caused by the overpowering and merging of an opponent's energy with a Kaze no Kizu to create a massive backlash against the opponent. Inuyasha discovered this ability while fighting Ryukōtsusei, a giant dragon yōkai who even Inuyasha's father was unable to defeat completely.
    • Diamond Spear Blast — (金剛槍破, Kongōsōha) This power was given to InuYasha by Hōsenki to defeat Naraku in the boundary between this world and the next.
    • Ryuurin no Tessaiga's technique — A currently un-named technique from the manga that allows the Tessaiga to absorb a youkai's energy. Inuyasha learns this technique after breaking the Datsuki, a weapon forged from a dragon scale. However in the later manga chapters it is revealed by Totosai that because Inuyasha's fang was used to reforge the Tessaiga, it can only absorb a limited amount of yōki. If Inuyasha were to absorb too much yōki then the blade were to turn black and it would cause him immense pain.
  • Tessaiga has five forms:
    • Rusty Tessaiga — Tessaiga's basic form. It has no special power at all. InuYasha can't transform it into any of its other forms when he is in his human form.
    • Transformed Tessaiga — When wielded by a hanyō (like InuYasha), Tessaiga transforms into a larger version of itself, roughly resembling a large falchion. First used against Sesshomaru, it wasn't until the following battle against the yōkai Tsukumo no Gama that InuYasha learned how to control the Tessaiga's transformation. After being repaired when it was broken by the yōkai Goshinki, for a short time it was too heavy for InuYasha to wield. When InuYasha defeats Ryukōssei not only does he gain the ability to able to use the Wind Scar (Kaze No Kizu) at any time, Tessaiga becomes light as a feather.
    • Red Tessaiga — When InuYasha saved Shiori from her grandfather, she gave him an orb that, when cut, gave Tessaiga the power to break any yōkai barrier. Naraku eventually is able to create a barrier that cannot be shattered by this after becoming a full yōkai at Mount Hakurei.
    • Diamond Tessaiga — By killing Hosenki (Hōsenki), InuYasha got the ability of turning Tessaiga into diamond in order to use Kongōsōha. It is able to bypass Naraku's stronger barriers as well.
    • Ryuurin no Tessaiga (Dragon-scaled Tessaiga) — By breaking the Datsuki, a weapon forged from a dragon scale, the Tessaiga has gained the ability to absorb youkai energy. The blade looks like the regular Tessaiga except it has a few dragon-scales on the non-sharp side of the blade.
• Kagome Higurashi
  • Hama no Ya (破魔の矢, Purifying Arrow) — Kagome's and Kikyo's weapon. They concentrates holy powers on their arrows and is shot at yōkai to destroy them. Kagome almost destroyed Naraku in his powerful form (after Hakurei) by using an arrow Kikyo had mixed with Onigumo's burial soil.
  • "Osuwari" (literally 'Sit!' (a formal command as given to a dog), but for dubbing reasons often rendered into 'Sit, boy' in English) — A voice command that causes the rosary around InuYasha's neck to take effect and brings InuYasha crashing down into the ground.
  • Jewel of Four Souls (四魂の玉, Shikon no Tama) a.k.a. the Shikon Jewel — The Jewel that started the whole story was embedded in her body at the start of the series.
• Sango
  • Hiraikotsu — A huge boomerang used by Sango as a weapon. It is made from the bones of yōkai. It seems that Sango is the only one who can lift and throw it effectively.
• Shippo
  • Fox Fire (Kitsune-bi) — Shippo's fox fire, used to burn (really) weak enemies, though it has absolutely no effects on stronger enemies. Shoots green/blue colored fire when used. Not used as much as his illusion attacks.
  • Leaves of Illusion — Shippo uses his magical leaf to create illusions and change his shape. Also notorious for his giant bouncing mushrooms, chestnuts, and other oddities.
• Miroku
  • Kazaana — Translated to English as Air Rip or Wind Tunnel, Kazaana is a powerful vortex in Miroku's right hand which sucks everything in the vicinity into itself. It is a curse given to Miroku's grandfather by Naraku, and eventually it will grow to consume him, as it did to Miroku's father and grandfather. This attack's weakness is in Naraku's poisonous insects called Saimyōsho, which, when sucked in, poison the attacker. Miroku won't use this ability if it endangers innocent lives.
  • Staff of Hoshi — With his staff Miroku can create a small protective barrier for a short period of time.
• Sesshomaru
  • Tenseiga — Sesshomaru's sword. Rather than killing 100 people, like Tessaiga's Wind Scar, it can resurrect 100 people. It is a blade that cannot cut the living, but it can slay creatures related to the afterlife. Sesshomaru resurrected Rin with it when she was murdered by Kōga's wolves. Sesshomaru genuinely hates this sword, though its usefulness has been proven. He would have preferred to have inherited the Tessaiga, which is destructive rather than constructive.
  • Tōkijin — Sword forged from Goshinki's fang. It possesses a strong yōkai and the sword was forged from the very teeth that broke Tessaiga.
  • Claws of Poison (Dokkasō) — Sesshomaru's right hand can release deadly poisonous gases and acidic liquids.
  • Whips of Flame: A very handy weapon that looks like a whip made of pure energy.
• Jaken
  • Staff of Heads — Sesshomaru gave this useful staff to Jaken when they first met. One of the heads is an old man and the other is a young woman. It can blast fire at enemies.
• Kikyo
  • Hama no Ya (破魔の矢, Purifying Arrow) — Same as above with Kagome, only Kikyo's bow is longer.
  • Fūin no Ya (封印の矢) — Arrow of sealing. She used this arrow to seal InuYasha to Goshinboku after Naraku tricked her into believing they had betrayed each other.
  • Shinidamachu (死魂虫 Shinidamachū) — Soul collector insects used to collect the souls needed to help Kikyo sustain her life.
  • Shikigami — Kikyo can fashion shikigami to serve her. One was a partial image of herself as Hijiri-sama that she used to attract the attention of InuYasha and help him defeat Abihime's birds. She also created 2 servant shikigami, Kocho (Kochoō) and Asuka, who led Kagome to her to help purify Naraku's Shōki and continue to help her by acting as messengers. Tsubaki also uses Shikigami.
  • Shikon no Tama manipulation — Kikyou (and presumably other Mikos, as well as Naraku) has the ability to take shards of the Shikon no Tama and combine them into a whole piece. She also has the ability to purify it (much like Naraku has the ability to corrupt it).
• Naraku
  • Shōki (沼気, Miasma) — Naraku's special poison gas.
  • Kugutsu (傀儡, Demon Puppetry) — Naraku makes a clone of himself to attack his enemies by distance. A small wooden doll with a strand of Naraku's hair lies at the center of the puppet and when destroyed, the clone is destroyed. A similar wooden doll is kept with the real Naraku and controls the puppet.
  • Mimicry — This ability does not have an official name. Naraku copies someone's body and voice, becoming an exact copy of that person. He used this ability to breed hate between Kikyō and InuYasha and to curse Miroku's grandfather with the Kazaana.
• Kagura-Kagura uses a special fan to summon her wind attacks:
  • Dance of Blades (fūjin no mai, 風刃の舞) — Fires off multiple spinning blades made of wind.
  • Dance of the Dead (shikabane no mai, 屍の舞) — Brings the dead back to life under Kagura's control.
  • Dance of the Dragon (ryūja no mai, 竜蛇の舞) — Creates many small tornadoes.
  • Kagura also has a feather that can increase in size and is used as transportation.
• Kanna
  • Magical Mirror —
    • Allows her to steal someone's soul and keep it inside her mirror so that Kagura can take complete control over their bodies. When her mirror was filled by souls from Kagome's arrows, it began to crack and Kanna had to release the souls to save the mirror.
    • The mirror will reflect an enemy's attack back at them, whether physical or made of yōki.
    • The mirror can also reveal other locations without physically being there, like a crystal ball.