Hidden Leaf Village Headband Keychain

This is our leaf village headband keychain that is designed to look just like the headbands worn by the many shinobi residents of Konoha village.

The forehead protectors in Naruto are headbands that consist of a metal plate and band of cloth. The metal plates are engraved with the symbol of that ninja’s respective village, while the cloth portion is used to secure itself to one’s head.

The many shinobi of Naruto wear headbands to show where one’s loyalties lie. Wearing a headband is also seen as honorable, which is why ninja will wear them even in their off-hours and especially when sparring with an opponent. Conversely, not wearing a headband is seen as disrespectful towards one’s village and peers. Another reason why a ninja wouldn’t wear their headband is if it was stripped from them as a sign of unworthiness for crime, treason, or wrong-doing.

Forehead protectors come in several different colors. The most common color is navy blue, which can be worn by ninja for their entire time spent as a ninja. Red is a color worn by Rock Lee and Might Guy but also by members of Iwagakure. Black is another common color next to blue when it comes to headbands; it’s worn by characters like Naruto after the time-skip. Purple is a color also seen by some ninja like those in allegiance to Hoshigakure and Otogakure.

Some ninja who commit crimes or abandon their village, who should be stripped of their forehead protectors, keep them on despite this. In the Akatsuki clan, a collection of strong missing-nin ninja wear their headbands from their old villages they’ve since left or betrayed and carve a horizontal line through the symbol on its front-plate.

In other cases, shinobi that remain loyal to their village have crossed out the symbol to show victory over, for example, a civil war, such as the case with the citizens of Amegakure who are aligned with Pain, displaying their victory in the war against Hanzo.

There have been headbands which consist of a different symbol than a particular village: for instance, when the Fourth Shinobi World War was approaching, Mifune designed a forehead protector to be worn by the Allied Shinobi Forces. These headbands had the engraved kanji symbol for “shinobi” to symbolize the coalition between ninja villages against a common threat.

Jiraiya is popular character who instead of having a Konoha headband that denotes his allegiance to his home village, instead has the markings of the kanji for oil (abura).

There are many different kinds of headbands in Naruto, because there are many different hidden ninja villages. Although if you’re looking for the most popular variant, that’s exactly what you’ll find here with our hidden leaf headband keychain.

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