Ninja!

Actually, my friend is a Ninja's friend. The Ninja lives in Ninja's volost now. The Ninja graduated a university in Osaka, and then went home to accede the Nijna technique. I'm not joking you. I'm sure.



He is said he did the training Ninja technique at one mountain. Once my friend ask him to teach the technique but his answer was "No". It seems to never allowed to be taken out of the Ninja family race. (Now it seems some of Ninja familiy don't make a secret.)



Hattori clan is most famous NInja family. Someone says, Zeami and Kanami, who established KABUKI was Ninja. Because they announced themselves as Hattori clan. (Zeami wrote a book titled "Fushikaden", and the book is published in English. I used to read the book many times.) In addition, someone say Matsuo basho and Katsushika Hookusai were also Ninja. =D haha.



Zeami's Fushikaden:

http://www.amazon.com/Flowering-Spirit-Classic-Teachings-N%2514d/dp/4770024991/sr=8-2/qid=1161616216/ref=sr_1_2/102-0709573-7328124?ie=UTF8&s=books



Matsuo basho's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Narrow-Travel-Sketches-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140441859/sr=1-2/qid=1161616283/ref=sr_1_2/102-0709573-7328124?ie=UTF8&s=books



Katsushika hokusai:

http://www.amazon.com/KATSUSHIKA-HOKUSAI-1760-1849-Kodansha-Japanese/dp/B000E3DJ2O/sr=1-3/qid=1161616342/ref=sr_1_3/102-0709573-7328124?ie=UTF8&s=books



As I recall, I've seen Katsushika Hokusai's paintings at Norton Simon Museum.





Ninjas are not combatants. They avoid killing and fighting as they can as possible.

Their main tasks are opinion survey, security means, checking enemy's stockpile, and so on. They developed mainly techniques to ran away. They don't often use Shuriken(Ninja star) and they run away, because they have to present information on enemies to Samurai. They also pretend underdog, to avoid fighting. They often hide a letter filled about secret informations in Cyonmage(topknot)



Ninja's clothe, like Sho Kosugi, is just a example among many Ninja clothes. Such a cloth is too distinct. Red Ninja is hopeless case. Always they wear common clothes. In addition, They observe body weight limit, 60kg. I'm washout. They learned other public entertainments and etc to secrete what they are. They must not be known what they are.



Shogun, especially Tokugawa 8th shogun Yoshimune, employ Ninnja to check other Daimyo and senior statesmens. They were called "Oniwaban". It means so to say "garden Ninja". They always stood ready to recieve orders from Shogun.



When I was a child, I used to tried Bunshin-no-jyutu(alter ego technique, as if making cloned humans in a blink of an eye), but I think I will not able to acquire it. Maybe.=D Please tell me if you know someone acquired it.



Ninja called by various names, Kusanomono, Kusa, Shinobi and so on means Ninja. Female Ninjas are called Kunoichi. Kunoichi seems to been disguised as dancer and other showmans and so on.



Last summer I asked my friend about the Ninja. My friend said he practically can't get in contact with the Ninja.



The mountain is Fuji-mountain.



Actually the Ninja works in a common company by day.



You can see a Ninja animation;

http://www.ninjamura.com/