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Ninja : the (unofficial) secret manual
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Ninja : the (unofficial) secret manual
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Based on historical ninja training manuals, this witty and informative volume gives you all the tools you need to enter the secret world of ninjutsu.
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Title
Ninja : the (unofficial) secret manual
Call No
UB271.J3
Authors
Turnbull, Stephen R.
Subjects
Based on historical ninja training manuals, this witty and informative volume gives you all the tools you need to enter the secret world of ninjutsu. Ninjas, Japan's famous black-clad spies, saboteurs, and undercover fighters, equipped with superb martial arts skills and an uncanny aptitude for sneakiness, are the stuff of myth and legend. In the present day, movies, comic books, theme parks, and computer games have all been dedicated to the ninja. Folklore and entertaining tales concerning ninjas remain immensely popular as the Ninja has captured a central place in the cultural imagination, both in Japan and in the West. Ninja takes the reader to Japan in 1789, conveying the excitement, danger, and subterfuge of the period. Based on original ninjutsu training manuals, it teaches precisely what is required to become a ninja. Illustrated throughout with contemporary artifacts, documents, and prints taken from the original manuals, as well as modern reconstructions, this lighthearted but informative guide covers every aspect of what it was really like to be a ninja in Japan.
Ninja--History.
Ninja--Japan--History.
Ninja in popular culture.
Japan--History, Military.
Ninja in popular culture.
Ninja.
Japan.
Military history.
History.
Language
English
Published
New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2019.
Publication Desc
208 pages : illustrations ;
ISBN
0500021996

(hardcover)

Dimensions
21 cm