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Posted on 11/29/2012 5:40:40 PM PST by skinkinthegrass
Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son - but today's say they will be the last.
Japan's ninjas were all about mystery. Hired by noble samurai warriors to spy, sabotage and kill, their dark outfits usually covered everything but their eyes, leaving them virtually invisible in shadow - until they struck.
Using weapons such as shuriken, a sharpened star-shaped projectile, and the fukiya blowpipe, they were silent but deadly.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Or maybe they are better than ever. You just don't see them...
A half grown kitten showed up at my place a few months ago. She was all black.
My Grandson said I should name her “The Shadow Ninja”. I guess because she was black. After a couple of months she just disappeared as suddenly as she appeared.
“Using weapons such as shuriken, a sharpened star-shaped projectile, and the fukiya blowpipe, they were silent but deadly.”
I’m often silent but deadly - a bit of a ninja my own self, or so I’m told.
Possible my dog is a ninja.
I’ve actually been to the Iga-Ryu ninja museum. Looks like the BBC had a really lame news day to be reporting this. The Iga-Ryu museum was lame when I went there in 2001.
“Japan’s ninjas heading for extinction”
That’s just disinformation they planted in the media. They are just waiting to flip out and kill somebody:
http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm
I have a ninja dog. All black. Utterly silent. Skulks through the shadows when you are not looking. Never where you expect him or remember him being. Could steal the stake off your dinner plate and you would never know it was gone except for the vague feeling that you were still hungry. Sometimes he steels stuff and then brings it back and dumps it in front of me to prove his skills are intact.
Sort of a reminder to be afraid. Be very afraid.
Ask A Ninja - Question 9 “Ninja Love”
(Jason’s “Wife” asks if ninjas can love.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdS5lkeN8_8
Ninjai - The Little Ninja (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKOVIcL_aoQ
Episode 1
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pk11_ninjai-the-little-ninja-episode-1_shortfilms
Samurai ~ 1860 – 1880
Right. That’s what they WANT you to think. They’re ninjas man.
Right. That’s what they WANT you to think. They’re ninjas man.
Got a ninja in my neighborhood, not Japanese though. A mentally challenged young man 23 years old and his ninja costume is his favorite.
I've been meaning to ask him if he wants to go to Sunday School and church with us but haven't seen him lately. Which brings up another question which I need to ask my Pastor about. What class will he be in, he has the mental ability of an 8-10 year old and I doubt that he would get a thing out of adult S.S. or adult church. We have children's church, he probably would like that better.
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