Ninjutsu
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, and are terms for the techniques and skills used by covert operatives, irregular warfare specialists and intelligence gatherers in pre-modern Japan known as ninja. Some of these techniques are recorded in ninja scrolls, several of which have been published and translated. The study of these scrolls have changed the perception of ninja and ninjutsu.
Key facts
- Martial art.logo
- ninja kanji.svg
- Martial art.logocaption
- The kanji for "ninja"
- Martial art.logosize
- 100px
- Martial art.imagesize
- 224x433 pixels
- Martial art.name
- Ninjutsu(忍術)
- Martial art.aka
- Ninpō, Shinobi-jutsu
- Martial art.hardness/difficulty
- Non-competitive
- Martial art.country
- Japan
- Martial art.parenthood
- Military tactics
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Ninjutsu
- topic's main category
- Category:Ninjutsu
- practiced by
- ninja
- native label
- 忍術
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Training
- Tactics
- Disguises
- Equipment
- Outerwear
- Tools
- Weaponry
- Legendary abilities
- Kuji-kiri
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
, and are terms for the techniques and skills used by covert operatives, irregular warfare specialists and intelligence gatherers in pre-modern Japan known as ninja. Some of these techniques are recorded in ninja scrolls, several of which have been published and translated. The study of these scrolls have changed the perception of ninja and ninjutsu.
While there are martial arts schools that claim to be modern styles of ninjutsu, the historical lineage of these styles only goes as far back as the 1950s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ninjutsu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.