The Most Famous Ninjas in Japan

I loved Ninja stuff in the 1980’s.

in the 80's the ninja explotation was amazing

Lol i love ppl who don't understand that being a famous spy/ninja is like being a most famous painters, your only famous after your dead or out of the game

Suddenly I remembered the game "Tenchu" 💙

If you're a famous ninja you failed

Sho Kosugi is my fave Ninja growing up in the 80s…

Wait. None of them are turtles?!?!?!?!

Shinobi were samurai, who specialized in espionage.

Now I'm almost certain that the script for this video essay was written by AI. Not only an occasional use of AI generative art that look bizarre, swords held backwards or mangled hands, stuck as fillers between stock photos of actual man-made art. The moment he gets to "Jinenkan Hatsumi" I realized that it was AI, down to the script, and I could tell from a mile because I used to study at Bujinkan and am still following and researching and practicing at home (in addition to other Koryu which I have an actual teacher for). Hatsumi Masaaki (Yoshiaki) is the headmaster of Bujinkan, his student Manaka Unsui broke-off from Bujinkan to create Jinenkan, it must have been all scrambled by an AI author who butchered the whole thing, piecing together bits of information in a cohesive yet incorrect way. It was Takamatsu's grandfather (referred to as Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu by Bujinkan and Bugei Ryuha Daijiten) who taught ninjutsu (Gyokko Ryu, Shinden Fudo Ryu, Togakure Ryu, Gyokushin Ryu, and Komugakure Ryu) to Takamatsu (Takamatsu also studies other martial arts from Mizuta Sensei (Takagi Yoshin Ryu) and Ishitani Sensei (Kukishin Ryu, Gikan Ryu, and another branch of Hontai/Takagi Yoshin Ryu)). And there is no lack of photos and videos the creator of this list could have used for the segment about Hatsumi, he's is very much alive and well and still training, there are thousands of photos and videos of him online, he authored many books and instructional videos; and there's no shortage of photos of his teacher Takamatsu Toshitsugu (Chosui) either, there are even some old videos of him. This makes me doubt rest of the information in this essay is not botched as well.

Thank you for showcasing all of these warriors 👊🏻

I knew that my fav hattori hanzo was going to be the top one ninja in this list cause i have already known about his legend says that he was the great ninja in history of time . Litrally in that period people use to call him demon hanzo because he was like a demon when it cames to war or fighting . His skills was on whole another level . He was a leder of ega ninja clan and also considered as a samurai due to his status and respect in shogon tokugawas army ❤❤❤❤

A lot of people are forgetting the time period. Most of them were famous after they died or stopped being a ninja. In this time period even if someone knew your name they likely didn’t know what you looked liked considering ‘photos’ were just drawings.

great video

People have the wrong impression of Ninpo , expecting some fantastic amazing move's in reality you won't see it

The interesting thing about 'Ninja' which I was gutted learning as I got older, was that the 'Ninja' that we think of today is a modern fabrication popularized by the West and Japan just rolled with it. The word also not being recorded to have been used historically. Ninja were nothing more than samurai who were tasked with roles of espionage, sabotage, reconnaissance and political manipulation. They very rarely engaged in combat as that was not their purpose. They did not wear black attire as a rule as this would make them easily recognizable. They masqueraded as fishermen, builders, farmers, hence farming weapon such as nunchaku (used to beat rice), bo (used to carry water buckets), sai (garden tools used for planting seeds), kama (field scythes), shuriken (roof washers), etc. 'Ninjutsu' was not a method of self defense. Everything that set these techniques apart from Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu and similar disciplines of the time was merely the techniques used to hide, gather and relay information and navigation. They also employed the exact same styles of warfare, like Jujutsu, Aikijutsu, Iaido, Kenjutsu, Kyūdō, Bajutsu,etc. And there were even people specializing in what we think of today as 'Ninjutsu' who ere not trained in martial arts at all. Apart from that they used the exact same styles as most samurai. Hanzo also was not a 'Ninja' at all. He was a Samurai from a long standing and well established family. He was, however, tasked to lead the Samurai Clans of Iga, who excelled at espionage and sabotage, by Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was not their defacto leader. It was merely during their employment under the Tokugawa. He was not one of them and prior to that point merely had good relations with the Iga families. The Koga were also not what we now think of as 'Ninja'. They were lesser samurai families who merely often employed methods of espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. Ninja, or what we understand today was not a seperate class from Samurai. They were cut from the same cloth but specialized in a certain branch of warfare, just like Ashigaru were different from Gokenin, or Hatamoto, etc.

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Loved playing the samurai warriors games. Felt disappointed upon knowing that fuma kotaro is actually proficient with the kusarigama. They put the moveset to hattori hanzo instead, making kotaro as sort of demon ninja with extendable arms.

Now i wanna be a ninja (but really I always wanted to be a ninja)

The showcasing the Ten Ninja legends of all time is great. All of the Ninja Shadow Warriors of Japan are the best of the best that ever lived by doing Special Reconnaissance Missions, hostage rescue, Direct HVT missions, Direct Raids and Black ops specialists in espionage and Unconventional Warfare tactics. The Ninjas are the world's original special Forces Warriors.

Fuuma Kotaro always be my favourite Ninja.