Shinobi: The Art Of War

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shinobi is the traditional way that the term ninja would have been spoken, it is only a rough chinese translation of the word ninja that has popularised the term. Also the term ninja has been helped along by the fact that most modern forms of media involving shinobi refer to them has ninja. For the purpose of this presentation I shall refer to them as shinobi.

Now during the actual wars in japan ninjas were relatively undocumented with the exception being “Sun Tzu's: The Art Of War” where they are mentioned briefly.
However though not documented in war times,come peace in japan and their where suddenly many shinobi out of work. And some of them turned to documenting their work, it is from that work that we have had an opportunity to catch

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