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  2. Ninjas in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    People dressed as ninja during the 2009 Himeji Castle Festival in Himeji, Hyōgo, Japan. In the history of Japan, ninja (also known as shinobi) operated as spies, assassins, or thieves; they formed their own caste outside the usual feudal social categories such as lords, samurai, and serfs.

  3. Ninja - Wikipedia

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    On June 19, 2022, Kōka city in Shiga Prefecture announced that a written copy of "Kanrinseiyo", which is the original source of a famous book on the art of ninja called "Bansenshukai" (1676) from the Edo period was discovered in a warehouse of Kazuraki Shrine. [82] The handwritten reproduction was produced in 1748. [83]

  4. Sarutobi Sasuke - Wikipedia

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    Sarutobi Sasuke's image has been very influential in ninja fiction, in which he is usually portrayed as a young boy. The character was immortalized in contemporary Japanese culture by the popular Tachikawa Bunko (Pocket Books) children's literature between 1911 and 1925, [10] [11] as well as in Sarutobi Sasuke, one of the more famous gag manga by Shigeru Sugiura from the 1950s (followed by ...

  5. Iga-ryū - Wikipedia

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    The ninja of the Iga-ryū was also divided into different "classes" and ranks, based solely on the ninja's skill level. This hierarchy was simplified in the writings of the mid-20th-century author Heishichiro Okuse, who labeled them into three general categories: "jonin (upper ninja)", "chūnin (middle ninja)", and "genin (lower ninja)".

  6. Category:Fictional ninja - Wikipedia

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    S. Sarutobi Sasuke; Asuma Sarutobi; Sasori (Naruto) Scarlett (G.I. Joe) Scorpion (Mortal Kombat) Sekiro; Sensei (DC Comics) Shadow Thief; Shen (League of Legends)

  7. Fūma Kotarō - Wikipedia

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    A popular but fictional story says that in 1596, Kotarō was responsible for the death of Hattori Hanzō, a famous ninja in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had tracked him down in the Inland Sea, but Kotarō has succeeded in luring him into a small channel, where a tide trapped the Tokugawa gunboats and his men then set fire to the channel ...

  8. Ninpiden - Wikipedia

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    The Ninpiden (a.k.a. Shinobi Hiden, or Legends of Ninja Secrets) is an authentic ninjutsu manual written by Hattori Hanzō in 1560. [1] It is regarded as one of the three key historical texts of ninjutsu, along with the Shōninki and the Bansenshukai.

  9. Hattori Hanzō - Wikipedia

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    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.

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