Ninja : unmasking the myth / Stephen Turnbull.
"Many well-known features of the ninja tradition such as the black clothes and the iron stars are shown to be complete inventions. One important feature of the book is the use of original Japanese sources, many of which have never been translated before. As well as unknown accounts of castle at...
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Barnsley, S. Yorkshire :
Frontline Books,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The universal ninja
- 2. The elusive ninja
- 3. Iga and Kōka
- 4. Kōka and Iga
- 5. The pacification of Iga
- 6. The shaking of Kōka
- 7. The Shogun's shinobi
- 8. Ninjutsu in black and white
- 9. The magic of ninjutsu
- 10. The enduring ninja
- 11. The shinobi awakes
- 12. Enter the ninja
- 13. A star is born
- 14. Selling the shinobi
- 15. The exemplary ninja.