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Today,"Ninja"s are well known in all over the world. By the way,
actually, who are they? In old days,when Japan had been separated
in many countries, the professional spies, who stole secrets of
enemies, were Ninjas. We are going to introduce ,what Ninjas had
really been , that only few people know.

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Ninja as entertainment Spies confirming their companions in passwords

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The password authorization system is the oldest and newest way to identify people.
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Tools computers and websites that we use protect our personal information with
passwords. In ancient times during war, people distinguished their comrades also
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through passwords. Naturally, this primitive system was utilized by ninjas too.
Ninja's Theme Park There were a lot of password methods used by ninjas, let’s look at the basic ones.
Various Ninja's Firstly, ninjas adopted words about nature as their codes. For instance, in hostile
Techniques territory, if a ninja came across another ninja who seemed like a comrade, the ninja
Study real Ninjutsu would say "mountain" to the other one. It would be OK if the other ninja answered
"forest". In the case where the wrong password was given or he could not answer, I
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am going to leave it to your imagination how the situation ended. Ninjas used such
kinds of combinations of words, for example like below " flower-fruit " , " sun-moon
New Entry ", " sea-salt " , " valley-water " , " fire-smoke ". There were some coupling of words
based on natural features and cultures of Japan like these, " (Mount) Fuji-snow " , "
Ninjutsu at the present Tatami mat -frame " , " frog-well " , " tea-green ". If these combinations we learned
time by the enemy then such combinations would not be used. It was of vital
Banke Shiobi No Den importance that a ninja remember the codes because if they forgot them then it
Kensyujo was very possible that one of their own comrades may attack them and try to kill
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Ninja on the Kite Using private words as codes

Ninjas often used jargon as cipher. Ninjas had specific jargon used in their own
localities and they make full use of them. For example, ninjas from Iga (伊賀) never
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used the word "Iga". Instead, when they communicated with their comrades, they
Various Font of would say " I am from (Kuri) ". Here, an explanation is needed. In Japanese,
Ninja Kanji Character chestnuts in burrs are called " Igaguri (毬栗) ". The word "Igaguri" includes " Iga
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(伊賀) ". Furthermore, in Japanese, chestnuts are called "Kuri ". At the same time,
"Kuri" means the "Kuri (九里) ". " 九里 " indicates the distance nine " 里 (Ri) ". One
"Ri" is about 4 km, so "Kuri " shows about 36 Km. This is roughly the distance from
Iga to Kyoto (京都), which had been the capital of Japan in the Warring States
period. As ninjas left hardly any written records, many of private codes are lost
today but it is thought that ninjas worked out lots of codes such as these.
"Tanka (短歌) " which is a Japanese poetic form of thirty‐one syllables, is often
exploited. In a style of tanka, certain words are used in combination with specific
proper names. For instance a place name " Yoshino (吉野) " corresponds to "Hana
(花) ", which means a flower in Japanese. Mt.Yoshino is known as the showplace of
beautiful flowers. Similarly, " Asama (浅間) " is tied up with "Kemuri (煙) ". Kemuri

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is smoke in Japanese. Mt.Asama is famous for eruptions. As can be seen here,

ninjas needed a good education and memory.

Mt. Asama and its smoke

Kamiyo - Moji

Japanese as a language is composed of three characters. They are " hiragana (ひら
がな) ", " katakana (カタカナ) ", and "kanji (漢字) ". Kanji are chinese characters
which spread to Japan about around the 5th and 6th centuries. Ancient Japanese
people developed hiragana and katakana based on kanji around the 10th century
but according to a certain opinion, ancient original Japanese letters had existed
before kanji was introduced from China. These were called "kamiyo-moji (神代文字)
". General academic theories refuse this view and man can prove neither the real
existence nor the absence of kamiyo-moji. In accordance with a certain opinion,
ninjas knew kamiyo-moji and used it as a code and actually the mysterious words
that ninjas wrote can be found today. In this case the most persuadable theory is
that it is true that ninjas used very distinctive characters but they were not
kamiyo-moji, but something ninjas created themselves. Ninjas developed a lot of
their original words. For instance, as the pre-modern Japanese language has 49
pronunciations, ninjas developed appropriate words which corresponded to each 49
letters by means of mixing many of kanjis. Of course on those days, no one but
ninjas could read the words. It can be thought that ninjas would abandon their
codes if it was learned that their enemies had deciphered their code.It was like the
signals of baseball players. Something amazing is the memory and learning ability
of ninjas who were able to master a large amount of codes.

Kamiyo-Moji (神代文字)

Kuji - Goshinjutsu

You have probably seen such a scene in movies or anime where a ninja cornered by
enemies casts a spell while making symbolic signs with his fingers. In almost all
cases after that, the ninja used a mysterious ninjutsu (忍術). On many occasions,
the spell that the ninja was muttering iwa " Kuji - Goshinjutsu (九字護身術) ". He
was saying "Rin-Byo-To-Ja-Kai-Jin-Retsu-Zai-Zen (臨・兵・闘・者・皆・陣・列・在・
前) ". These words are from the classics of Taoism (道教). The meaning is "One that
fights to face the soldiers, stands in front of the column". This magic basically
belonged to "Shugendo (修験道) ", those that had continued the ancient Japanese
religion and ascetics of Shugendo were called " Yamabushi (山伏) ". As explained

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many times, Yamabushi is one of the ancestors of ninjas. Shugendo is a

representative Japanese religion, that is to say the doctrine and service of
Shugendo was something mixed with those of Buddhism, Taoism, and Shinto (神
道). In short, Shugendo was a very scrambled religion. The same spell was used by
esoteric Buddhism. " Kuji-Goshinjutsu " was originally the ritual for demanding
divine protection but probably ninjas used these words for concentration and
self-encouragement. Thereby they utilized many aspects of ninjutsu. Basically
ninjas relied on self‐reliance. All the results of their missions depended on only
their abilities so they knew that they could really only depend on themselves and
not Buddha or goddesses. Even when they were casting a religious spell, it was for
pulling out the potential power of themselves from within.

" Kuji-Goshinjutsu (九字護身術) " and its symbolic signs with fingers

Voir aussi
Kioku-Jutsu -How Ninjas keep Memory-
Dentatsu-Jutsu -The Way Ninjas transmit Information-
Gen-Jutsu -Ninja makes Enemy confused by Illusion-
Bunshin-no-Jutsu (Clone Technics)
Taijin-Jutsu -Ninja's Mind Control-
Sakuryaku-Jutsu -How Ninjas utilize Tactics-
How Ninjas actually walk
SoJutsu - Ninja's burning Run-
Hijutsu - Ninja's amazing Jump -
Shinnyu-Jutsu -How Ninjas invade hostile Territory-
Tonso-Jutsu -How Ninjas escape from Enemies-
Ninja's ultimate Survival Techniques
The incredible Camp of Ninja
Ongyo-Jutsu -Ninja's ways to hide-
Ninja on the Kite

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