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The ninja used their art to ensure their survival in a time of violent political turmoil. Ninjutsu included methods of gathering information and techniques of non-detection, avoidance, and misdirection. Ninjutsu involved training in disguise, escape, concealment, archery, and medicine. Skills relating to espionage and assassination were highly ...
Ninja characters in video games, covert agents, mercenaries, or guerrilla warfare experts in feudal Japan. The functions of a ninja included reconnaissance, espionage, infiltration, deception, ambush, and later bodyguarding and their fighting skills in martial arts, including ninjutsu.
Drawing of the archetypical ninja from a series of sketches by Hokusai. Woodblock print on paper. Vol. six, 1817. A ninja (Japanese: 忍者, lit. 'one who is invisible'; [ɲiꜜɲdʑa]) or shinobi (Japanese: 忍び, lit. 'one who sneaks'; ) was an infiltration agent, mercenary, or guerrilla warfare and later bodyguard expert in feudal Japan.
War of the Ninja Master series [93] War of the Ninja Master: The Kohga Ritual (1988) War of the Ninja Master: The Shibo Discipline (1988) War of the Ninja Master: The Himitsu Attack (1988) War of the Ninja Master: The Zakka Slaughter (1988) Tulku, a Tale of Modern Ninja (1985) by American ninjutsu practitioner Stephen K. Hayes. [94]
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The Kouga specialize in stealth and assassination with techniques that, for the most part, rely on subterfuge. Even abilities designed for battle, such as Gennosuke's Dojutsu, tend to be defensive in nature. In the second season, The Ōka Ninja Scrolls, a number of new characters are introduced.
The eponymous Ninningers are five descendants of the Igasaki Clan (伊賀崎氏, Igasaki-shi), ninja, practitioners of the Shuriken Ninja Art (手裏剣忍法, Shuriken Ninpō) ninjutsu who battled Gengetsu Kibaoni during Japan's Sengoku Era, and the grandchildren of Yoshitaka Igasaki, who prepared them for Gengetsu's predestined return.
The eighth volume of the ninja handbook Bansenshukai written in 1676 describes Kunoichi-no-jutsu (くノ一の術, the ninjutsu of a woman), which can be interpreted as "a technique to utilize a woman". [1] The Bansenshukai compiles the knowledge of the ninja clans in the regions of Iga and Kōka.