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The ninjatō (忍者刀), ninjaken (忍者剣), or shinobigatana (忍刀), [2] is alleged to be the preferred weapon of the shinobi of feudal Japan, described in one 21st-century portrayal as carried on the person's back, specifically horizontally at a height of around that of the person's waist.
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 ...
A ninja (Japanese: 忍者; [ɲiꜜɲdʑa]) or shinobi (Japanese: 忍び; ) was a covert agent, mercenary, or guerrilla warfare expert in feudal Japan. The functions of a ninja included siege and infiltration , ambush , reconnaissance , espionage, deception , and later bodyguarding and their fighting skills in martial arts , including ninjutsu ...
Shinobi was followed by a wave of ninja video games in the late 1980s, [17] with some of the most popular including Taito's The Ninja Warriors series, [23] System 3 Software's Last Ninja series, Data East's arcade hit Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja (1988), Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden series starring Ryu Hayabusa, [17] and Capcom's Strider series. [24]
Togakure-ryū (戸隠流) is a historical tradition of ninjutsu known as the "School of the Hidden Door", allegedly founded during the Oho period (1161–1162) by Daisuke Nishina (仁科大助) (a.k.a. Daisuke Togakure (戸隠大助)), who learned his original fighting techniques from a Chinese monk named Kain Dōshi. [1]
Ninjutsu (忍術), sometimes used interchangeably with the modern term ninpō (忍法), [1] is the martial art strategy and tactics of unconventional warfare, guerrilla warfare, insurgency tactics and espionage purportedly practised by the ninja.
Hattori Hanzō (服部 半蔵, c. 1542 [1] – January 2, 1597) or Second Hanzō, nicknamed Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō), [2] was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a general, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan.
This is a list of historical pre-modern weapons grouped according to their uses, with rough classes set aside for very similar weapons. Some weapons may fit more than one category (e.g. the spear may be used either as a polearm or as a projectile), and the earliest gunpowder weapons which fit within the period are also included.