hi!
Im must tell that almoust all dont know anithing about ninjutsu.
All web site that is writen in this forum on ninjas is lie and they are fanatic and dont know anithing on ninjutsu.
On one site is seying that seppuku is the art of killing yourself that ninjas was do seppuku is nothing expect lie.Samurai was make seppuku if the hawe no more onor.
Bellow i will wrote some tru of ninjutsu and i will wrote web site if you wont to go and read something more:
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People don't know very much about the art itself. First case of mentioning ninjutsu was in the year of 520.
In time when Shoguns (military rulers of Japan) ruled, Japan was divided in dosens of provinces, which was ruled by daimyos, military comanders. Wars between this daimyos were very often. Their armies fought one another, and many warriors - samurais died in those battles. For a samurai, to die while fighting for his lord was in fact one of the greatest honours, beacuse that's what their code Bushido, The Warrior's Path, ordered them to do. But for the special purposes, daimyos used ninja warriors, beacuse they weren't limited with the Bushido code like the samurais.
Ninjas worked on a special missions, like for example espionage, all kinds of diversions, sabotages, assasinations of enemy commanders, etc. Their code was to complete the task given to them, by any means.
In Kamakura period of Japanese history, many people took refuge in the mountains of Iga and Koga region, leaving the Bushi (Warrior cast), and continued to live in those mountains as jizamurais (warrior living as peasants), and were procecuted by the official government, beacuse of that. In order to protect themselves, they were forced to develope warrior arts with minimum of tools and equipment, because weapons were allowed only to members of Bushicast, who were in Shogun's service.
Somewhere about 794. - 1192. ninjutsu started to develope in the art that we know today. Some Chinese warriors, priests and teachers, who were wandering across the wilderness of Japan, were especially important for ninjutsu.
Gamon, Garyu, Kain, Unryu and generals of T'ang dynasty, Cho Gyoko, Ikai i Cho Busho brought with them knowledge accumulated in Imperial China, Tibet, South Asia and Eastern Europe, for example military strategies, religion philosophy, folk-custom, cultural concept, medicine, and they all find their place in the process of ninjutsu's development.
The crucial point for development of ninjutsu was melding of ninja techniques with techniques of soundless moving and disappearing, and their meeting with the powerfull, warrior-oriented organization of yamabushi, mountain priests-warriors. Yamabushi were a sect who was procecuted by the imperial army, and they practised shugendo, religion rituals mixed with ascetism and magic.
Ninjutsu art of fighting was strictly guarded secret, and it was passed on from a father to son, or from a teacher to his best student; and if teacher didn't have an inheritor, the school vanished. The most famous and strongest families were located in Iga and Koga (today Mie and Shiga) areas of Japan.
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