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Author:

Turnbull, Stephen R, author.

Title:

Ninja : the (unofficial) secret manual / Stephen Turnbull.

Publisher:

Thames & Hudson,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Based on historical ninja training manuals, this witty and informative volume gives you all the tools you need to enter the secret world of ninjutsu. Ninjas, Japan's famous black-clad spies, saboteurs, and undercover fighters, equipped with superb martial arts skills and an uncanny aptitude for sneakiness, are the stuff of myth and legend. In the present day, movies, comic books, theme parks, and computer games have all been dedicated to the ninja. Folklore and entertaining tales concerning ninjas remain immensely popular as the Ninja has captured a central place in the cultural imagination, both in Japan and in the West. Ninja takes the reader to Japan in 1789, conveying the excitement, danger, and subterfuge of the period. Based on original ninjutsu training manuals, it teaches precisely what is required to become a ninja. Illustrated throughout with contemporary artifacts, documents, and prints taken from the original manuals, as well as modern reconstructions, this lighthearted but informative guide covers every aspect of what it was really like to be a ninja in Japan.
Ninja--History.
Ninja--Japan--History.
Ninja in popular culture.
Japan--History, Military.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780500021996
0500021996

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1052877488

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)