

Actually I think it was probably even more important. I'd like to say you're imagining things, but no.

Haunty (author) from Hungary on January 24, 2011: The Iga Province and the southern area of Omi Province, known as Koga, are today associated with the origins of ninjutsu and the ninja.
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How to be a survivor as an undercover ninja depended on what kind of mission you were executing. By daylight he wore a casual attire to blend in with his surroundings.ĭisguise and deception were the primary survival tools of a ninja.
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The traditional ninja outfit is a full black head-to-toe costume, worn to disguise the ninja during secret night-time operations. In fifteenth-century Japan, a number of samurai families, the ninja families, started developing certain skills in intelligence collection, camouflage warfare. Ninja were trained to infiltrate into enemy territory to spy on troops, arms. Ninjutsu is the Japanese martial art of espionage, called the techniques of stealth or the arts of invisibility.
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A series of steep earthen banks and a bamboo fence or prickly hedge would provide extra protection. The shonin's residence might be nothing more than a simple wooden farmhouse, but it would be engulfed in a labyrinth of rice fields with narrow paths acting as a moat when flooded. Within the village walls the homes of the genin would surround the residence of the shonin located in the center of the ninja settlement. These would include putting a series of smoke beacons on the surrounding hills to be able to receive notice of any assault planned against the village well in advance. The big, yet indistinguishable difference between these and a ninja village could be found in the ways used to protect the community from threats from the outside. At first glance they would probably resemble a wealthy agricultural community in the average daimyo's territory. The shonin's house in the center of the village surrounded by a maze of moat-like rice fields with narrow lanes in-between.Ī traditional ninja village didn't look anything like the imaginary ninja residence at all.Within the walls the homes of the genin laid out on the outskirts among rice fields.Subtle village defenses: a chain of smoke beacons on hilltops to warn of approaching enemy, a simple watchtower on the edge of the settlement.

