Webwomen could be moulded into the ultimate expression of death as well and they were known as kunoichi, a term that’s evolved to mean ‘female ninja’ in the modern. Just an average girl. — after shinobu used a smoke bomb, climbed a wall, and was seen carrying a kunai. Shinobu is just your an average girl, who throws shurikens. Webshinobi (忍), also interchangeably referred to as ninja (忍者), are the primary focus and the main military power in the series. A female ninja is known as a kunoichi (くノ一). A signboard of a ninja (l) and a kunoichi (r) at uenoshi station (aka ninja city station) in japan, 2019. The eighth volume of the ninja handbook.