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  2. Ninjutsu - Wikipedia

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    At some point, the skills of espionage became known collectively as shinobi no jutsu, and the people who specialized in these tasks were called shinobi no mono. Today, the last authentic heir of ninjutsu is Jinichi Kawakami , the 21st head of the Koga Ban family, honorary director of the Ninja Museum of Igaryu , and professor at Mie University ...

  3. Japanese martial arts - Wikipedia

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    Shinobi no jutsu (aka Ninjutsu) was developed by groups of people mainly from Iga, Mie and Kōka, Shiga of Japan who became noted for their skills as infiltrators, scouts, secret agents, and spies. The training of these shinobi (忍; ninja ) involves espionage , sabotage , disguise , escape , concealment , assassination , archery , medicine ...

  4. Modern schools of ninjutsu - Wikipedia

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    In 1972, Masaaki Hatsumi founded the Bujinkan organization. It uses the concepts of Ninjutsu in three of its nine schools [3] though they have since steered away from the "Ninjutsu" moniker in order to avoid stereotypes and since the art, which contains 9 ryūha (or schools), only has 3 schools based on the ninja while the other 6 are based on samurai tactics.

  5. Ninja - Wikipedia

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    Takeda Shinobi Hiden: Unveiling Takeda Shingen's Secret Ninja Legacy. Eibusha. ISBN 978-90-813361-3-0. Nawa. Yumio (1967). Shinobi no buki. Tokyo: Jinbutsu Ōraisha. OCLC 22358689. Nawa, Yumio (1972). Hisshō no heihō ninjutsu no kenkyū: gendai o ikinuku michi. Tokyo: Nichibō Shuppansha. OCLC 122985441. Okuse, Heishichirō (1964).

  6. Ninjas in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Jiraiya battles a snake with the help of a toad; woodblock print on paper by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, circa 1843. Ninjas first entered popular culture in the Edo period.In modern Japan, ninja are a national myth that stems from folk tales and continues through modern day popular culture. [1]

  7. Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals - Wikipedia

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    No. Title Original release date; 1 "Rock Lee is a Ninja who can't use Ninjutsu / Rock Lee's Rival is Naruto" Transliteration: "Rokku Rī wa ninjutsu no tsukaenai ninja desu / Rokku Rī no raibaru wa Naruto desu" (Japanese: ロック・リーは忍術の使えない忍者です / ロック・リーのライバルはナルトです)

  8. Kōga-ryū - Wikipedia

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    The beginnings of the Kōga-ryū may be traced to near the end of the Muromachi period.While the district of Kōga, in Ōmi Province, was under the jurisdiction of the Rokkaku clan, it was a kind of autonomous municipality, composed of localized unions called sō (惣).

  9. Shinobi (series) - Wikipedia

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    The ninja (shinobi) Joe Musashi is the protagonist of the original series of games (Shinobi to Shinobi III). [3] The first Shinobi was released in 1987 as an arcade video game . Along with Alex Kidd and Sonic the Hedgehog , Joe Musashi has long been one of Sega's flagship characters, acting as a mascot for a short time in the late 1980s when ...