Hinokami Kagura However here, it refers to them as if they were the same, The Hinokami Kagura (dance of the fire god) is later revealed by Shinjuro Rengoku to be a legendary Breathing Style known as Sun Breathing Hinokami Kagura Hinokami Kagura (ヒノカミ神楽かぐら Hinokami Kagura?, lit.
Hinokami Kagura was later revealed to be a descendent of the Sun breathing technique, the first and most powerful breathing style originally invented by legendary swordsman Yorichii Tsugikuni. Tsugikuni taught his friend Sumiyoshi Kamado the technique, which was passed down through the Kamado family and later renamed Hinokami Kagura.
Tanjiro, realising that he could not master Water Breathing like Giyu Tomioka nor could he handle the strain of Hinokami Kagura, showed to be able to combine the two techniques together in order to have stronger strikes than when he used Water Breathing alone and move for longer periods of time than if he used Hinokami Kagura alone.
Tanjiro was struggling to get hold of the "opening thread" and although he managed to behead Rui using Hinokami no Kagura, Rui was surprisingly not dead and he managed to sew himself. Later, Tomioka came and beheaded Rui with no effort whatsoever. So, do experienced demon slayers look for an "Opening thread" or do they just go by intuition?
Although he wasn't able to kill Rui, he almost killed him with his newly discovered breathing style, the Hinokami Kagura. His ability to use two breathing styles, and that one of them was actually a rusty version of the most powerful style that Yorichii created, the Sun breathing, were sufficient to demonstrate that he might as well be more ...