Grading
The table below has been designed to make learning and recognising grades within Ninjutsu as simple and easy as possible.
Once you have moved beyond your white belt you are awarded with 9th Kyu and either a green or red belt (depending on your gender). After 9th Kyu you are rewarded a silver star for each level you progress up to 4th Kyu where you replace all your silver stars with a single gold star, you then receive a new gold star up until Shodan.
Once you have achieved Shodan, you remove all of your gold stars and your Bujinkan badge and are awarded a black belt and the next Bujinkan patch, you then add stars in the same fashion until you reach Judan (10th Dan).
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Stars | Grade | ![]() |
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Stars | Grade |
| None | 9th Kyu | None | 1stDan | None | 5th Dan | |||
| 8th Kyu | 2nd Dan | 6th Dan | ||||||
| 7th Kyu | 3rd Dan | 7th Dan | ||||||
| 6th Kyu | 4th Dan | 8th Dan | ||||||
| 5th Kyu | 9th Dan | |||||||
| 4th Kyu | ||||||||
| 3rd Kyu | ||||||||
| 2nd Kyu | ||||||||
| 1st Kyu |


