Dating back to the Warring Clans era, the Flickering Shadow clone technique was mastered by a man of the Nara Clan, first using it to cause his shadow to become tangible, he used it on the battlefield for the extension of his combat career, mastering it, to one day be known as the Shinobi no Taigi (体技, Ninja of Shadow Boxing). This technique was passed on when he began to teach others of his Clan, an honored technique, but unfavorable due to the lack of taijutsu specialists at that time in his blood family.