Learn about ninjas - The most famous warriors in Japanese history

Referring to Japan, surely no one knows samurai and ninja, two of the famous forces that make up the characteristics of Japanese culture . So in this article, let's explore all about ninja - the most famous assassins in Japanese history.

1. Origin of ninja

Contrary to the monumental history, the nobility of the samurai, the origin of the rings are mostly question marks. According to historical records, this force appeared around the 14th century at the end of Heian period, but whether it is true or not is unclear by the nature of their secret activities.

Ninja appeared around the 14th century end of Heian period.

Regarding the composition of the class, many historians agree that the shinobi originated from the people, or the derelict samurai like the ronin, even the samurai accepted to give up their status to perform their duties. .

2. Operating principle of ninja

Different from the task of protecting and fighting on the battlefield of the samurai, ninjas are full of tasks that are not very glorious, such as espionage, invasion, vandalism, assassination, and ambush by numbers. Children do not spare, old people don't love Military historian Hanawa Hokinoichi wrote:

"They camouflage in any area of ​​the opponent's territory to assess the situation of the enemy, they will seduce by their own way, coming in the middle of the opponent to detect gaps and invade long enemy stations to set fire, assassinate or track secrets. "

Ninja received the whole mission is not very glorious.

Unlike the cumbersome seppuku ritual, when caught, the ninja will kill the whole team and commit suicide to preserve the secret of the mission.

3. Ninja's way of fighting

Basically, ninjas are almost as trained as samurai, because some of the ninja ranks were once samurai themselves. They are adept at all kinds of weapons, techniques such as Kenjutsu (Sword Art), Iaijutsu (Sword Art), . basically they use swords very well. However, unlike the samurai, the ninja's techniques were very top-notch, but when it came to fair battle, their chances were not very high.

So if they don't fight back, what do they do? They will try to cut their throat by assassination. Naturally, they are not aggressive. If forced to fight in a one-on-one battle with the samurai, they had almost no victory over those destructive machines. But in terms of skill in using a variety of weapons, the samurai had almost no door to them.

Techniques and types of ninja weapons are diverse.

In return, ninjas are very good at techniques such as non-body techniques (similar to Parkour), stealth skills, hiding and using support tools such as climbing hooks. Those are things that ordinary samurai cannot do.

4. Diversity in weapons

Ninjas tend to use light, compact and highly effective weapons such as shuriken (shackles), shoku (hand thorns), kusari-gama (sickles), knives . and short swords such as Tantou (short sword) and wakizashi (samurai also often use this type of sword to fight, instead of katana). Or rather, they used a specialized sword called Ninjatou.

Due to its compact size and relatively light weight, ninjas are relatively fond of the use of blades.

Basically, these are light weapons to facilitate movement, increase attack speed, assassinate targets quickly. Meanwhile, samurai often used heavier, heavier weapons such as naginata, clutches, spears, kodachi ,, .

Proficient use of long-range assassination techniques with rings such as shuriken also gives ninja a great advantage. Of course, they are good at aiming at targets from afar and are willing to throw shuriken at them, if they feel the time has come. They even know how to use guns.

Tanegashima musket.

According to research, feudal ninjas knew how to create smoke bombs to unleash blind smoke, then guns to assassinate targets, namely musket Tanegashima. In general, shinobi not only have more strength and technique than humans but also possess more special weapons than the samurai.