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The Ashi no Himitsu (足の秘密, "Secret of the Foot") is an ancient Foot Clan book in the IDW continuity.
Description[]
The Ashi no Himitsu is a book with a purple cover, black handwritten cover text, a red circle with the Foot Clan emblem in its center on its front cover, and brown rope binding. In the modern era, several pages are torn from the book, both fully and partially. It is stored in both the feudal Japan era and the modern era in a light brown wood box with a yellow Foot Clan emblem on the front.
The Ashi no Himitsu is a comprehensive history of the Foot's early history, including extensive information about the life of its founder Takeshi Tatsuo, the politics that the Foot was involved in, and even about the sinister magics that were worked by the witch Kitsune. Furthermore, it has a great deal of information pertinent to the Dragon Warrior.
History[]
In The Secret History of the Foot Clan issue 2, Oroku Saki was tested by Oroku Maji and Masato to confirm whether Kitsune's vow to curse Maji with reviving Takeshi's soul in Saki in The Secret History of the Foot Clan issue 1 had happened. Saki was to select items he felt he owned from a group and the Ashi no Himitsu was one of them, confirming that he was the reincarnation of Takeshi. When Saki was an adult and had just been promoted to a Foot Clan chūnin, he was lured by Kitsune to investigate a book hidden beneath a floor with promises of being shown his "legacy". Maji and Masato soon after realized that Saki had uncovered the Ashi no Himitsu, much to their horror.
In the present, Saki had a partially-intact copy of the Ashi no Himitsu in his possession, but there were many pages missing from it. Other pages had been found by Dr. Miller, an expert on the Foot Clan's history, who had uncovered the partial text in an old temple (The Secret History of the Foot Clan issue 1).
The Turtles managed to abscond with the Shredder's copy of the Ashi no Himitsu in The Secret History of the Foot Clan issue 3, and learned a great deal from it, including how the Shredder had managed to become immortal. In The Secret History of the Foot Clan issue 4, Michelangelo discovered he could read Japanese, not even recognizing that its text wasn't written in English. Once they had finished with the book, Splinter burned it with a match.
In Vengeance, part 3, Splinter compared the Ashi no Himitsu to the Pantheon scroll Dr. Miller gave April O'Neil, the Ashi no Himitsu's information restricted to only past dangers, unlike the Pantheon scroll.
The Ashi no Himitsu was mentioned in Karai's Path, part 1.