Exploring Japanese history, literature, and pop culture, mostly through ninjas.
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Did Imperial Japan Teach Ninjutsu to Its Spies?
Detail of print depicting scene from the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5: Kobayashi Kiyochika, “The Japanese Army Lands at Weihaiwei and Advances.” Date unknown; source.
The last few posts I’ve been trying to get a sense for where the i...
Was That Japanese Soldier Who Carried On Fighting For Thirty Years After The War Ended Actually A Ninja?
Front cover of 1976 edition of Onoda Hiro’o, trans. Charles Terry, No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (Corgi Children’s, 1976). Source.
‘Ninja’ writing, much like the popular fiction it often draws on, is very vibe-y. It tends to pick up on...
The Terrifying Return of the Undying Ninja
Print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887. A shadowy figure seen through a shōji screen scares a group of three children. Source
One of the notable things about the 80s ‘ninja’ media we’ve been surveying over the last few posts is that their stor...
The Fifth Element of the Ninja Mind
During the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 PFC Ōhashi Keikichi, having been sent on a recon mission, encounters a Russian soldier and attacks him with his own rifle. No evidence has yet come to light as to whether PFC Ōhashi was secretly a nin...
Was Shotoku Taishi The Original Ninja Master?
Shōtoku Taishi (574-622) leads an attack on his enemy Mononobe no Moriya. Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1840; source.
What with life, work, and computer troubles this week I wasn’t able to get today’s planned post ready in time. Instead, as...
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