Parting Grass

Hojo has spent the majority of his life mastering kenjutsu in combination with Space-Time Ninjutsu and Ice Release to give him an indomitable presence on the battlefield. is an advanced Space-Time Kenjutsu that allows Hojo Senryo to deliver an unprecedented diagonal slash that is capable of rending space itself due to its initial speed. Most practitioners of kenjutsu are often seen using huge golf swings and actions reminiscent of a baseball batter’s home-run hit or a lumberjack felling a tree. To expend such force that your body is twisted away from what you are hitting, leaving your side or back exposed, would mean instant death in a battle against Hojo Senryo. To initiate this technique, the sword should be held gently and moved with the same smoothness and grace as the brush of a sumei artist (those who write Japanese calligraphy). In many ways, less is more when it comes to this technique; smoother, not faster, is the aim. It is correct technique, which looks and feels almost effortlessness, that produces the perfect cut, not how much momentum/force you can generate in one blow.

When the opponent is caught off guard from a parry during one of Hojo’s unique stances, Hojo matches their breathing patterns to deliver nothing short of a diagonal dimensional slash towards the opponent’s starting at their left shoulder and ending towards the pelvic bone. This is achieved by warping space via the sheer speed of unsheathing his sword. This speed is enough to make it seem that it doesn't appear to even leave its sheath via spatial compression. It creates a distortion in space that engulfs his target and part of the surrounding environment and it dissipates within microseconds. It should be also noted that Hojo can use this technique with any of his other swords which can also boast more beneficial results. When its combined with his powerful Ice Release techniques, this attack combined with its striking speed is in most cases unavoidable. This warp in space leads to a desolate frigid landscape dubbed by Hojo as his dimension.