What a Ninja Attack Really Looked Like

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Oda Nobunaga needs his own video he was mental even for middle ages standards.

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A Nobunaga-focused episode would be great! Had to stay focused on shinobi for this one, but Nobunaga’s story is so much bigger

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Eh, hes pretty par the course for the time period. Nothing on the scale of the Mongols tbh

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​@@DylanJo123it is not always about scale. Numbers are not the end all be all

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[@maxcasteel2141]

I know some people find it kind of disappointing that there doesn't seem to be a "true ninja" secret order like some kind of anime or something but personally I think it's really cool that the actual shinobi were almost more of a folk tradition (speaking as someone who does not know a lot about the subject)

[@julianius484]

There were Ninja Clans instead. Basically mercenaries but more organized. But I get you usually people think of ninjas as black garment wearing, shuriken throwing sneaky warriors (though they used shuriken but not like in movies and animes). Many people don't know this but Samurai also had and used shurikens.

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Now that I think about it. It would just be way less trouble and easier to sneak around blending in by actually dressing in disguise rather than jumping and climbing over shit in a black mask a majority of the time LOL

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If it were a secret how'd you know about it

[@LastTrueElk]

There's always groups inside if groups

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Ninjas as “traveling monkey trainers” is something I wasn’t expecting to hear about today.

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doesn’t make them any less cool if you ask me

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@@HistoryDoseIt honestly makes them more scary. The thing that frightens me most is the thing that I don’t see coming.

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"My lord, we are being ambushed! Is that... is that a monkey?!"

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Sarutobi is that you?

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@@nellym46664 Sekijo?

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[@Volvith]

_"It is the cold time of year, so Shinobi would not approach unless it is a moonlit night. ... And nevertheless, rotate the watchmen three times during the night, roll down the stones, throw torches and observe."_ - A member of the Hojo clan. Not some shadowy organization, nor an honorable code of nightly justice. Just brutalist clandestine terror tactics, and a razor-sharp voice that spoke only in corpses. Feudal Japan was one of the most brutal and bloody chapters human history has ever known. The Shinobi reflected that in full.

[@julianius484]

"Not some shadowy organization" not really. Most shinobi belonged to ninja clans. Those clans acted as organizations with a grandmaster in charge known as "Jonin". They had their own code. They followed certain codes of honor (as funny as it sounds given they were considered honorless by the samurai), loyalty and discretion.

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Ngl I admire the Shinobis warrior spirt. Fairness is for woman, children and the cowardly.

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All is fair in war

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[@sonicman52]

lol. What we call “terror tactics” with our modern, contemporary mindsets was par for the course for most of human history. Brutal and cruel by our standards, but humans are incredibly influenced by the society and culture in which one grows up. They were cruel and brutal because the material state of humanity for most of history demanded it. Atleast men could be men and women knew their place

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Great work! I love how well you immerse us in the time with such gritty and grounded descriptions, keep it up!

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This was really well done! Thank you 🙏 . I enjoyed your use of audio when referring to the battles taking place, really made it feel more real but not over the top.

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Traveling is dangerous and costly

[@alittlepuertoricanboy1993]

Absolutely awesome video. Yes, most of what we call "ninjutsu" was historically nothing more than secret infiltration and guerilla tactics utilized by samurai forces. Some of the people engaged in these tasks would be samurai themselves, peasant foot soldiers, or even bandits temporarily hired by samurai warlords. In the later Edo period, it evolved more into secret police work.

[@Durzo1259]

That's the part I was unclear on. You could say ninjutsu is more a tactic that could be carried out by anyone, but were there dedicated career ninja? Just as anyone can be a spy and use spy tactics, but there are dedicated CIA operatives who are professional spies.

[@alittlepuertoricanboy1993]

@@Durzo1259 You only see "career ninjas" during the Edo period, as in, their jobs were officially called "shinobi no mono". Even then, spycraft wasn't the only thing that they did. More times than not, their usual duties were guard duty, inspection, criminal capture, being civil servants, and fire watch, along with secret police work.

[@alittlepuertoricanboy1993]

@@Durzo1259 Before the Edo period, shinobi work was spycraft and guerilla warfare, and there really wasn't anyone dedicated solely to doing shinobi work. For example, the second Hattori Hanzo, the one that was one of Ieyasu's most trusted retainers, his main function was as a commander for Ieyasu's troops, but he did some secret night raiding earlier in his career, and he was later tasked to set up a spy network by Ieyasu, using 200 displaced samurai from his father's homeland of Iga. These same 200 Iga samurai would end up becoming castle guards, gunners, and spies for the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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Ninjas are just spies they just do their dirty jobs to gather information

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Interesting to note that Miyamoto Musashi also lived the period of Japanese history immediately following these events

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It’s basically a SWAT unit of ancient times. They observe and gather informations, specialize in violence and furious tactics and wear very similar uniforms with covering faces and operate with team and speed coordinations just like modern day SWAT.

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Thanks! They are digitally made using a pen on a tablet so there is no “original,” so to speak. Toward the end of the video, I included a sped up portion of Joe the artist’s process (takes 3-6 hours per piece)

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[@MusingsFromTheJohn00]

This was well done, thank you. There is another type of Ninja though that I believe also existed, that which stemmed from peasants who were normally at extreme disadvantage in all ways to those they might seek to kill, thus stealth, surprise, tricks, poison, and above all keeping one's identity unknown was required. Thus, for example, a peasant who became motivated enough to kill a samurai might find a way to poison the samurai so that no fight even happens, or a small group of peasants might surprise a samurai using farming tools and through surprise and numbers defeat the samurai, afterwards to blame the death upon unknown assassins in the dark.