"ninjas"

[HtTKar]

A concern I have is that two groups were primarily the catalyst for the creation and evolution of the Ninja being the Yamabushi and the Shugendo. The question again is what did they teach these Japanese

They also brought mongolian horses with them from Korea, taught people how to raise horses, fight from horseback, etc. The Shugendo probably did not teach much as they were kind of like todays modern Flashy gangsters. They worked for money and wore fancy clothes. They were just hired muscle. The Yamabushi lived in seclusion, and knew a lot about the off-beat paths, and secrets of the areas such as caves, animal and foot trails, mountian survival. Maybe a lot.

There was also a people the Japanese relocated to the northern most island of Japan. Like the American "trail of tears"... These "hairy" people of Japan may also have some historical link to the Ninja.

This was not just a "trail of tears".

During the Jomon Period (13000 BC to 300 BC), the inhabitants of the Japanese islands were gatherers, fishers and hunters. During the Yayoi Period (300 BC to 300 AD), The rice culture (modern Japanese) came to Japan. These two different cultures fought against each other for a long time. The people that lived on these borders became a very sturdy built person that needed martial arts to survive. From what I have gathered these ""hairy" people" have close genetic links to those living in Okinawa.

The history of every country has been farming culture killing off the original hunter/gatherers of the region.