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    Shinobi Manuals, Often Centered On: Bansenshukai

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    Ninja were covert agents and mercenaries during feudal Japan who specialized in espionage, sabotage, assassination, and open combat when needed. They emerged in the 15th century during the Sengoku period of civil war but may have existed earlier. Most knowledge of ninja comes from the Iga and Koga regions, where mercenaries and spies were active. Following the Tokugawa shogunate's unification of Japan, ninja faded into obscurity, though manuals were still written. By the Meiji era, ninja had become figures of popular legend and folklore, making it difficult to separate fact from myth about their supposed abilities.

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    Ninja were covert agents and mercenaries during feudal Japan who specialized in espionage, sabotage, assassination, and open combat when needed. They emerged in the 15th century during the Sengoku period of civil war but may have existed earlier. Most knowledge of ninja comes from the Iga and Koga regions, where mercenaries and spies were active. Following the Tokugawa shogunate's unification of Japan, ninja faded into obscurity, though manuals were still written. By the Meiji era, ninja had become figures of popular legend and folklore, making it difficult to separate fact from myth about their supposed abilities.

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    Ninja were covert agents and mercenaries during feudal Japan who specialized in espionage, sabotage, assassination, and open combat when needed. They emerged in the 15th century during the Sengoku period of civil war but may have existed earlier. Most knowledge of ninja comes from the Iga and Koga regions, where mercenaries and spies were active. Following the Tokugawa shogunate's unification of Japan, ninja faded into obscurity, though manuals were still written. By the Meiji era, ninja had become figures of popular legend and folklore, making it difficult to separate fact from myth about their supposed abilities.

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    A ninja (?) or shinobi (?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan.

    The
    functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, and open
    combat in certain situations.[1] Their covert methods of waging war contrasted the ninja with the
    samurai, who observed strict rules about honor and combat.[2] The shinobi proper, a specially
    trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the Sengoku or "warring states" period, in
    the 15th century,[3] but antecedents may have existed in the 14th century,[4] and possibly even in
    the 12th century (Heian or early Kamakura era).[5][6]
    In the unrest of the Sengoku period (15th17th centuries), mercenaries and spies for hire became
    active in the Iga Province and the adjacent area around the village of Kga, and it is from the
    area's clans that much of our knowledge of the ninja is drawn. Following the unification of Japan
    under the Tokugawa shogunate (17th century), the ninja faded into obscurity.[7] A number of
    shinobi manuals, often centered on Chinese military philosophy, were written in the 17th and
    18th centuries, most notably the Bansenshukai (1676).[8]
    By the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868), the tradition of the shinobi had become a topic of
    popular imagination and mystery in Japan. Ninja figured prominently in folklore and legend, and
    as a result it is often difficult to separate historical fact from myth. Some legendary abilities
    purported to be in the province of ninja training include invisibility, walking on water, and
    control over the natural elements. As a consequence, their perception in western popular culture
    in the 20th century is often based more on such legend and folklore than on the historical spies of
    the Sengoku period.[citation needed]

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