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This article is about the folk ninja featured in Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari. For the ninja of the same name featured in Naruto, see Jiraiya (Naruto). For the tokusatsu series, see Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya. For the cicada genus, see cicada.
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Jiraiya , with a heavy gun, overcoming a huge Snake which has preyed on his friends the Toads.
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Jiraya riding a giant toad, depicted in an 1866 print by Yoshitoshi.
Jiraiya (児雷也 - literally "young thunder"), the title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari (児雷也豪傑物語, "The tale of the gallant Jiraiya"), is a ninja who uses shapeshifting magic to morph into a gigantic toad. The heir of a powerful clan in Kyūshū of the same name, Jiraiya fell in love with Tsunade, a beautiful young princess who masters snail magic. His arch-enemy was his one-time follower, Orochimaru, who mastered in snake magic.

Influences on Fiction

  • In the game for the Neo Geo console Kabuki Klash, Jiraiya's name is spelled Ziria and he's a ninja from the Fire Clan who fights with a kodachi sword and has a pet frog which grown several times its size when Ziria summons it in combat. Tsunade is a ninja girl from the Roots Clan (the archenemies of the Fire Clan) who uses snails and a huge axe in her attacks and is in love with Orochimaru, a wandering warrior and poet who wields a naginata and snake magic.
  • Akimitsu Takagi's detective novel The Tattoo Murder Case uses the character representations in tattoos worn by three of the main characters: Kinue Nomura (Orochimaru, the snake), her brother Tsunetaro (Jiraiya, the frog) and sister Tamae (Tsunade, the slug; translated as Tsunade-hime), all set within a series of murders that takes all three's lives.
  • In Naruto, a popular manga and anime television series, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru appear as three legendary ninjas known as the Sannin. Instead of transforming into a toad, Jiraiya can summon toads into battle, up to and including Kaiju-sized monsters. This summoning ability is predicated on Jiraiya having established a blood-contract with all species of toad-kind. Tsunade can summon slugs, and Orochimaru can summon snakes.
  • In the tokusatsu movie The Magic Serpent, Jiraiya (also known as Ikazuchi-Maru) was the protagonist. He and his arch-nemesis Orochimaru transform into two daikaiju, a toad and Oriental dragon, respectively, and have a duel to the death.
  • In the tokusatsu superhero series Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya, Jiraiya is the protagonist of the series. A Japanese professional wrestler uses the Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya character appearance as his gimmick.
  • One of the five characters in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger is named Jiraiya / NinjaBlack.

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Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya (世界忍者戦ジライヤ
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Cicadoidea

Family: Cicadidae
Westwood, 1840

Subfamilies

Cicadettinae
Cicadinae
Tettigadinae
Tibiceninae
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Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group.
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ninja (忍者 ninja)
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Shapeshifting is a common theme in folklore, as well as in science fiction and fantasy. In its broadest sense, it is a change in the physical form or shape of a person or animal.
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Magic, sometimes known as sorcery, is a complete conceptual system of thought, belief, and knowledge that asserts human ability to control the natural world (events, objects, people, and physical phenomena ) through mystical, paranormal or supernatural means.
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Toad refers to a number of species of amphibians. A distinction is often made between frogs and toads by their appearance, prompted by the convergent adaptation among so-called toads to dry environments, which often entails a brown skin for camouflage which is also dry and leathery
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Tsunade (綱手), featured in the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari (児雷也豪傑物語, "The tale of the gallant Jiraiya"), is the wife of the gallant ninja Jiraiya.
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snail is loosely applied to almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells in the adult stage.

The class Gastropoda is the second largest class of invertebrates, second only to the insects.
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Orochimaru (大蛇丸), featured in the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari, is the arch-enemy of the ninja Jiraiya. He was once named Yashagorō
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Linnaeus, 1758

Infraorders and Families
  • Alethinophidia - Nopcsa, 1923
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A kodachi (小太刀:こだち
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Naginata (なぎなた, 薙刀) is a pole weapon that was traditionally used in Japan by members of the samurai class.
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Tsunade (綱手
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