Official
Ninja Event in Tokyo December 7th (Sat) Mie Terrace
"Ninja and Ninjutsu Study in Tokyo"
Saturday, November 23 Ueno Set "Hundred Ninjas"
Professor Yuji Yamada, Mie University
Now ninjas are known all over the world. Watching animations such as Hollywood movie Naruto where ninjas appear, inbound foreigners are visiting Japan with longing for ninjas.
For Japanese people, ninjas acquire strict training in the superpower of using ninja law, serve daimyo and lords from Muromachi since the Warring States period, and independent spies such as intelligence activities, destruction activities, penetration tactics, intelligence, assassination, etc. It is a perception that he was like an intelligence officer who infiltrates into the enemy territory and obtains information and obtains information to favor the ally's war conditions.
And the representative group of ninjas who are said to be Iga and Kogajin in historical drama is also famous.
Prof. Yuji Yamada, who studies such ninjas, and Mr. Shinobu Iyohisa Iyo, who study such ninjas, can take a lecture at Mie Terrace from Mr. Shinobu Sanada. If you want to know more about ninjas, please apply here.
https://www.human.mie-u.ac.jp/event/-in-tokyo-127.html
A special guide by Dr. Yuji Yamada, Professor of Mie University of Humanities / Deputy Director of the International Ninja Center, he seems to be wearing a ninja costume and visiting places related to ninja in Tokyo.
This year, they will stop by special spots related to Tsukiji and Akasaka.
By all means, if you want to become a ninja and visit places related to ninja in Chuo-ku and Tokyo, you can see it.
Click here for the application form https://shinobinosato.com/news/1245
It's a commemorative photo of the ninja gathering at Ueno Onshi Koen!
Everyone, the ninja costume suits you.
1734 In 1734, a book called "Oomiyochi Shiriku" is written as "Ninja Iga / Koga and called Ninja".
It is an area where exchanges are still active, next to the gentle hills, also known as "Koi Ichikuni".
The mountainous area, which is close to Kyoto and Nara, surrounded by the Suzuka Mountains to the east and the Kasagi Mountains to the west, is a great exile area for powers of time.
It was a land where information was easily accessible, along the Yamato Kaido and Tokaido, and was a militaryly important area as a fortress.
A local samurai called "Iga Shu / Koga Shu" was a ninja and was born as a self-governing organization during the Warring States period.
It seems that they cooperated on a one-country scale called "Iga Sokoku Revolt" and "Koka-gun Nakaso", and they seemed to be friends as an allies.
According to Iga's Nyogen Kikuoka's book "Igakuni Ninjutsu Secret Method" and "Iga Ninja", "I worked hard in the family business in the morning and gathered at temples in the afternoon to practice military and military arts. In the event of a war, the bell sounded in the village, and when the mobilization, from the peasant to the shaven, rises with their own special weapons, it is stipulated in the "rules". "
In the construction of Todaiji Temple in Nara period, Iga Soma and Koga Soma were opened, and wood was produced and supplied as a soma.
As a mountain ascetic hermit, he acquired rigorous training and knowledge of herbs, and culmination of various ninjutsu such as magic and astronomy.
The unity of the "one bit concentric" clan was hard, and "rigging various things" sometimes decided by majority vote, and "meeting together and deciding by discussion" was the "rule" of the Ninja village.
Because there is no protruding authority, castle buildings of the same shape and size are distributed in narrow areas.
With the emergence of powerful powers such as Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi who aimed at unifying the world, these local samurai autonomous organizations have come to an end.
During the Warring States period, shinobi technology was useful, serving daimyo in various places and playing an active part.
1582 After the transformation of Honnoji Temple in 1582, Ieyasu Tokugawa, who was in Sakai, escorted the shortest route back to Mikawa, his homeland, and the success of Iga and Koga people led to the opening of Tokugawa shogunate.
The sutras sung by mountain ascetic hermit and others are still echoing at Iidoyama in Koga, one of the best sacred sites in Iga and Oomi. Appropriate as a training ground, a mysterious air drifts in the harsh environment where Tendai Tightism flourished.
I learned that ninjas in the background of such religious culture have been passed down until now, and even if the shape changes depending on the times, the spirit has been passed down.
The mansion of the village reminiscent of the Warring States period is surrounded by square and tall earthen walls, and the descendants of ninjas still live.
The gunpowder is reflected in the fireworks launched by Fujimori Iga at guardian god Teriki Shrine.
In Koga, it is said that it has been handed over to placement medicine and has developed into a major industry as a medicine town.
Ninja training represents mountain ascetic hermit and homa training by Aburahi Shrine mountain ascetic hermit as a place for the cohesion of Koga, which was nurtured by mountain ascetic hermit, including gunpowder, pharmacy and chemistry in 1676 written by Yasutake Fujibayashi.
mountain ascetic hermit and others practiced hard at the mountain ridges, gained knowledge of medicinal herbs, distributed thanks to all over the country, and gave me medicine.
Participate in an event where you can learn about the actual situation of such real ninjas.
And please visit the land of Iga and Koga, the hometown of ninjas. I think the world view of ninjas will change more.
After listening to the story of Professor Yuji Yamada of Mie University, which has been held at Mie Terrace every year since last year, the view of ninja as a superstar with a strong image of the entertainment world has been greatly revised.
Last year's cherry blossoms and good blogs are also attached.
https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/detail.php?id=4510
(Professor Yuji Yamada, Faculty of Humanities, Mie University, gave permission to carry the information and photos.)