Ninja and Shinobi: What is the Truth? - History of Japan

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King&Generals cooking this vid for so long since AC in Japan was first teased like 10 years ago. Unshakable patience

Oops! Mistake! That's NOT Kabuki, which is a play with human beings. That's Bunraku which is a puppet theater. The puppeteers usually wear black robes BUT not always. There's another style called dezukai without black robes where you can see them. Kabuki DOES use black clad stage hands called Kuroko. Kings and Generals messed this one up sorry to say!

As a ninja myself, you saw nothing

Greetings from Nagoya! A popular disguise shinobi used was a shakuhachi player, because they wear a basket over their head, a great excuse to not let your face be seen. City guards were taught to recognize a few songs to ask shakuhachi players to play when they entered town to prove they were actual musicians and not spies. Anyone visiting Japan wanting to see the ninja villages, Koga doesn't really have anything to see, but Iga's ninja village and museum are quite fun and there are other famous places nearby worth seeing, like the Akame waterfalls where the Iga ninja trained, Ise jingu, Japan's holiest shrine, Suzuka racing circuit, Nagashima Spaland which is home to the longest roller coaster in the world. The map made it look like Koga is in Mie preference as well, but it's on the opposite side of the mountains in Shiga prefecture.

So you're telling me the movie American Ninja with Michael Dudikoff is not historically accurate? Personal attack on my childhood.

You failed to mention a Ninja’s true power: Using Talk-No-Jutsu to make an enemy your friend

There's already an Assassin's Creed game that takes place in Japan, it is called Ghost of Tsushima and it's better than anything Ubisoft could ever make.

"Wait a second, you can't do magic by hand gesture?!" "Well, it is possible, but only when you're dealing with Italians. It is easy to use an Enrage magic by doing hand gesture in front of them".

It is an irony that one of the most recently popular story about ninja/shinobi depicts them wearing brightly-coloured outfit, fighting en masse in open battlefield, and utilising 9 kaiju-sized beasts as ultimate weapons, totally unlike the real-life counterparts

Ninja also translates to "those who endure" or "the sufferers" (忍者). As they mostly came from the peasant class, it's a fitting name.

In the first place ninjas usually hadnt carry katanas on their backs during covert ops

In 16th century Japan, there were many communities that aimed for oligarchic politics, not just Iga and Koga. The Ikko Ikki, who opposed the daimyo with religious solidarity, and their military allies, the Saika-shu, the Murakami Pirates, who controlled the trade routes in the Seto Inland Sea, etc. If you don't mind, I would like to cover these diverse regional groups in the next video.

WHAT?! None of them were turtles?! Bah; BAH, I say!

praise be to shogun total war showing ninja as half-hazard and deadly as the rest of us

Crazy we going to get spesific Japan history timeline - Ghost of Tsushima: Mongol invasion period - AC Shadow: Sengoku Jidai period - Rise of the Ronin: Fall of the Bakufu period

so much ninja today i love it

You should do a video about Christopher Lee!

The art really contributes to the overall experience of these videos, thanks for that <3

Awesome history; my question is why arnet they using somone like Hatori Hanzo as the main character in the game instead? He seems like the ideal person to explore the shinobi of japan.