Critical Ninja Theory
Rob TuckExploring Japanese history, literature, and pop culture, mostly through ninjas.
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The Symbolism of the Shuriken
A possible spy is discovered in Yamamoto Satuso, dir. Shin Shinobi no mono (known in English as Shinobi no mono 2: Vengeance), Daiei Studios, 1963.
One of the great things about writing for this audience is that a lot of my readers know s...
Where Did The Ninja 'Frisbee Flick' Come From?
3D-printed shuriken with magnet. Presented to me by one of my students Spring 2026, and seen here attached to my fridge.
Last time around we looked at the 1957 Japanese samurai film The Yagyū Warrior Scrolls (Yagyū bugeichō), which is very...
The First Time A Ninja Used Shuriken: April 1957
A star-shaped shuriken in the samurai film The Yagyū Warrior Scrolls (Tōhō Studios, 1957). All screenshots below are from this film unless otherwise noted.
Shinobi, the historical figures on which the fictional construct of the ‘ninja’ is...
Were Star-Shaped Shuriken Even A Thing?
An eavesdropper gets nailed with a shuriken in Hachimonjiya Jishō’s story Morihisa konote-gashiwa (‘Morihisa and the Evergreen Shrub,’ 1748). Image credit: 東京大学総合図書館 General Library, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN; source link. Mentioned in...
Ninja Didn't Use Shuriken
Mashiba Hisayoshi (a lightly disguised version of Toyotomi Hideyoshi), seen here moments before Ishikawa Goemon launches a shuriken throwing-knife at him. A famous scene from the 1778 play Sanmon gosan no kiri. Print by Kunisada, 1849-53. S...
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I'm an academic specializing in Japanese literature and history from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
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