Although many of real ninja's legends are not known even to the Japanese, the image of their contumes and performance has now become very popular not only within Japan.
Personally, the phrase of "ninja" just reminded me of "Hattori-kun", an anime character, and I did not really know about real (?) ninja, before we picked up this theme in our latest issue...
In the new issue of Jiyujin,Iga and Koka, the birth places of two major ninja schools, are visited to learn about the secrets of ninja; the history, their weapons and tools, tactics, costumes, trics of the ninja house and so on.
Introducing ninja weapons and tools The special feature is the ninja tactics (nin-jutsu).
Here, a profesional ninja performer Mr. Kuroi (a disciple of the 21st master of Koka-school Ban Sect) introduces some of the basic tactics.
The introduction of ninja tactics(left) and trics of ninja house(right)
