Nice to highlight that their main tools weren't their designated weapons, but rather the items kept in their "utility belt" & their MULTIPLE abilities.
Imagine Swiss ninjas And more so the secretive Swiss ninja order that (may or may not) was involved in the sack of Rome 1527 when they operated seperately with the 189 Papal Guards to hold those unpaid Protestant mercenaries formerly under HRE Emperor Charles V at bay till Pope Clement VII could get to safety at Castle St Mike
"What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
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If you are a fan of ninja, you probably know that they used many different kinds of tools depending on their specialties as spies and assassins. - ninjas/shinobi no mono are not trained assasins but over all nice video :D
some of them might have been, I mean a lot of them where trained soldiers (either samurai or ashigaru) so they knew how to kill people and they knew how to sneak around, and really that's all you need. Now it is true that assassination was an extremely small part of what ninja did, and most ninja never assassinated anyone.
I think all of them knew how to throw a bo shuriken, which should easily dispose of any unsuspicious target. Swordplay is a different story, but is kinda useless except to fight on battleground
You know what's odd? We had many of these tools in the Army, or at least variants of it. Also, growing up in the mountains living in the middle of nowhere, we had other tools also similar to these. Almost like the Ninja were basing these essential tools off of experience.....
yeah and i think the firestarter was probably used for making campfires more than anything else, just like in the army and when hiking in the mountains.
In the tactical community, these are called EDC (every day carry) tools. Multitools are extremely useful. Though a simple baseball cap is used in place of a straw hat
I love your channel shogo, I've learned so much stuff about samurai from this channel. I was wondering if you could make a video about the possible connection between the Samurai and the Yakuza.
I am just an American but I watch the NHK Japanese tv export television channel quite often. According to a yakuza lifestyle documentary that I saw last year, many yakuza see themselves as noble people who help average working people settle disputes that the modern police think are too trivial to deal with such as collecting gambling debts.
@@gwillis01 I always see that in Yakuza movies. There's often a character to profess that being a Yakuza is honorable- to be a protector, what it means to be a real man. Pretty neat. I like the concept at least. Of course we're aware that the Yakuza do many criminal things too, although I'm not personally opposed to prostitution as long as the prostitutes are treated well. I've nothing against drug trafficking as drug use and addiction is the fault of the individual, so the provider should not be blamed so long as the client is an adult.
My understanding of ninja is that they were more like spies than the assassins portrayed in media when I was growing up. Multilinguilism and mastering a common trade to fit in in different areas was more important than weapon skills. And most fighting skills were based around common farming and tradesman's tools that would always be availabe without their presence seeming suspicious. I'm sure their roles changed over time, though.
When I read Shogun one of my favorite details in the entire story was the ninja using cloth to wrap their grappling hook so as to deaden the sound it made when landing on top of a wall. So cool!
A very versatile tool could be...medicines. Lots of plant can be use to cure or kill a person depending on dosage or how you use it (a plant used to desinfect/cure wound can have devastating effects if ingested for example).
I this ninja book I picked up once at Japan. At one of the contents which had a term so called shinobi rokugu. In depth they consist of having yata-te (writing tool), inro (medicine box), tenugui or rokushaku tenigui (3x1 foot cloth or 6x1 foot cloth for rokushaku tenugui), amigasa (straw hat), kaginawa (grappling hook), and donohi or takezutsu (charred cloth in bamboo/copper container as body warmer and fire starter).
This reminds of a show from Gaijin Goombah's UA-cam channel called Which Ninja. It's very entertaining. He referenced a different book called The Bansenshukai.
thats interesting and shows! they were really clever! i watched the uchi-take video too, seemingly a useful tool! the amigasa are interesting - i would love to know more about them.. and the sekihitsu - thats a cool thing, read a secret message and erase it easily, to leave no trace 👍
I can throw a kozuka knife that fits into a samurai saya like a ninja kuni or throwing dart/spike with ease and power which leads me to believe the skill of the ninja was great due to how primitive some of the throwing weapons were staying the same with no need of evolution.
Honestly, I am not surprised on the hand towel.. Ninja missions are mostly stealth and infiltration. They are not meant to be assassins most of the time... That is what makes them interesting, somehow...
The kunai was definitely had/has multiple uses to them, not sure why they wouldn't be included. They weren't really throwing weapons but if I remember correctly, digging tools.
It is sort of a family motto. Can't remember which relative had the original, but his is a copy based on it. The general translation is "Do the best you can, and wait for nature to take care of the rest."
8:11 thats very similar to a old cowboy technique using a animal horn used to keep a fire portable in the wild west(fires r hard to make without lighters its possible but it hard even if u know what ur doing)
I have a few questions? What or how would these 7 "tools" look in or with present items today? Like what would the grappling hook/rope be substituted for today? Would a string saw be used or a slim saw?? And what kind of portable rations/medicines would be used today?
Pagodite and graphite must share a common weakness in that friction on the writing can damage the message. This means, that yes, while quite affordable, even today, I can't be sure that ninjas didn't carry a more permanent writing implement as a backup, for taking ongoing notes, for creating caches of information, or just things that you'd want something like indian ink to do that graphite or pagodite can't.
Compare the list to what modern bushcraft, hikers, and foot soldiers use. Also compare to the items found on frozen cave men. Cordage, cloth, candle(fire starters), cutting tools, cover(hat)
8:29 I thought uchi-take is a fire piston. Fire piston is a primitive match common in southeast asia where you lit the tinder inside using the compressed air.
man i would give all my money and possessions to humbly live in the countryside in Japan..sure it would take alot of adapting but the revitalization you would probably feel would be better than any drug
Nice topic. But I'd love to watch a video on Japanese armor, as I have seen some of them in private exhibitions in Europe. Many of them came from the USA. Thanks in advance.
A knife is always and makeing your own weapons Use any Oppertunity in the moment in ninjitsu there is no fair fighting or rules nor is it a sport for scoring points. everything goes it is about surviving.
Ah this is interesting. But what were the knee pads and elbow pads that ninja wore called? Everyone has seen the teenage mutant ninja turtles right? Specifically the 2003 series which shows the turtles wearing brown colored knee pads and elbow pads. I assume some ninja wore something for knee protection that could stay on without sliding of when they ran and fully bent their knees. Does anyone know what they were called? I genuinely want to buy something like this for myself for hiking. The typical knee pads always slide of my knees when I walk and run
See Mr. shogo . I want to know how your country Japan become superpower and I hard work tell about it . Hi I am from India . I am tamil
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Greetings. I recommend the channel Voices from the Past. There a gentleman reads original historical texts (chronicles, diaries, documents), that explain many things. There are several compilation videos about Japan's fast transformation ever since the isolation period ended. Also, there is an irreverent but informative channel called Linfamy that's about Japanese history and folklore. Good luck.
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I forgot, there is also the channel Cool History Bros, about East Asian history and culture. Mostly Chinese and Korean, but also useful to understand the interactions between the countries there.
All the tools were light firstly great for long trips, I believe the downside would be if any experienced soldier caught someone in imperial Japan with tools like this, it would have raised some suspicion because of the general assumption that they may have been used mostly by Ninjas or should we assume this is what people carried everyday ?
The one thing in here that would be hard to explain, is the grappling hook. Everything else could be a perfectly reasonable thing for a traveler to carry with them, especially when you consider that the saw was meant to be hidden. Unless of course, it was common for Edo-period Japanese travelers to carry grappling hooks for crossing rivers, which is unlikely but possible.
I'm surprised the kunai, or a similar short blade, isn't included in there. As I understand it, it was used as something of a survival knife as well as a digging and climbing tool, and I know I'd never go ranging without a knife. Far from me to contradict the masters, I'm just surprised.
Shogo-san check this out, cool techniques, Judo throws from the battlefield, youtube(dot)com/watch?v=lVOdRGl54qI My comment always disappears whenever I comment a link, that's why I replace the . with (dot), I don't know why that happens.
Hand Towel. A hitchhiker in the galaxy must never leave home without a towel. The towels are surprisingly effective against Vogons.
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Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was: Oh no, not again.
Damn you, you beat me to it :)
ARGH ! I ruined it, by instinctively liking your comment ... it was at a perfect 42 ... and I ruined it, by making it a 43 ... at least, DON'T PANIC !
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Nice to highlight that their main tools weren't their designated weapons, but rather the items kept in their "utility belt" & their MULTIPLE abilities.
Me who has a Swiss army knife and a pen in his pocket: "Maybe I am a Ninja!"
Imagine Swiss ninjas
And more so the secretive Swiss ninja order that (may or may not) was involved in the sack of Rome 1527 when they operated seperately with the 189 Papal Guards to hold those unpaid Protestant mercenaries formerly under HRE Emperor Charles V at bay till Pope Clement VII could get to safety at Castle St Mike
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 that'd be great assassin's creed plot
@@destianpatrianagara1119 I wasn't thinking of that but ok
😤😒
I think my favorite item here is the towel. Sounds quite useful. The hat as well, just because I've always wanted to wear one.
"What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
When I saw the hand towel, I couldn't help but think of "Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy"....
I really love studying about the realistic/historical ninja in the past,
but also enjoy modern/idealized ninja content too...
I personally think that it's simply best that we enjoy both😎
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If you are a fan of ninja, you probably know that they used many different kinds of tools depending on their specialties as spies and assassins.
- ninjas/shinobi no mono are not trained assasins
but over all nice video :D
More accurate still; they weren't *all* assassins. Most weren't. A few were. The spy game hasn't changed that much over the centuries.
some of them might have been, I mean a lot of them where trained soldiers (either samurai or ashigaru) so they knew how to kill people and they knew how to sneak around, and really that's all you need. Now it is true that assassination was an extremely small part of what ninja did, and most ninja never assassinated anyone.
I think all of them knew how to throw a bo shuriken, which should easily dispose of any unsuspicious target. Swordplay is a different story, but is kinda useless except to fight on battleground
How could anyone dislike such a video?
*I want to know his location*
Ninja clan leader unhappy with Shogo sharing the secrets.
Interesting to hear an actual person of Japanese ancestry talk about the subject on the ninja. Any chance we can get a video of some tamegashiri?
Hello Shogo,thank you for teaching me so much about japan and its culture. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks 😉
Thanks for the pin 😃
This is my family’s favorite Chanel❤️
You know what's odd? We had many of these tools in the Army, or at least variants of it. Also, growing up in the mountains living in the middle of nowhere, we had other tools also similar to these. Almost like the Ninja were basing these essential tools off of experience.....
yeah and i think the firestarter was probably used for making campfires more than anything else, just like in the army and when hiking in the mountains.
In the tactical community, these are called EDC (every day carry) tools. Multitools are extremely useful. Though a simple baseball cap is used in place of a straw hat
I love your channel shogo, I've learned so much stuff about samurai from this channel. I was wondering if you could make a video about the possible connection between the Samurai and the Yakuza.
I am just an American but I watch the NHK Japanese tv export television channel quite often. According to a yakuza lifestyle documentary that I saw last year, many yakuza see themselves as noble people who help average working people settle disputes that the modern police think are too trivial to deal with such as collecting gambling debts.
@@gwillis01 I always see that in Yakuza movies. There's often a character to profess that being a Yakuza is honorable- to be a protector, what it means to be a real man. Pretty neat. I like the concept at least. Of course we're aware that the Yakuza do many criminal things too, although I'm not personally opposed to prostitution as long as the prostitutes are treated well. I've nothing against drug trafficking as drug use and addiction is the fault of the individual, so the provider should not be blamed so long as the client is an adult.
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. "
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@@jsullivan2112 To be fair, looking at the comments, I wasn't the first to make a Hitchhiker's reference
This always annoyed my Ancient Greek professors when I said things like this, but I much prefer the practical items to the stereotypical things.
My understanding of ninja is that they were more like spies than the assassins portrayed in media when I was growing up. Multilinguilism and mastering a common trade to fit in in different areas was more important than weapon skills. And most fighting skills were based around common farming and tradesman's tools that would always be availabe without their presence seeming suspicious. I'm sure their roles changed over time, though.
When I read Shogun one of my favorite details in the entire story was the ninja using cloth to wrap their grappling hook so as to deaden the sound it made when landing on top of a wall. So cool!
Gaijin Goombah's Which Ninja fan here! So cool you've covered Ninja tools!
A very versatile tool could be...medicines. Lots of plant can be use to cure or kill a person depending on dosage or how you use it (a plant used to desinfect/cure wound can have devastating effects if ingested for example).
I this ninja book I picked up once at Japan. At one of the contents which had a term so called shinobi rokugu. In depth they consist of having yata-te (writing tool), inro (medicine box), tenugui or rokushaku tenigui (3x1 foot cloth or 6x1 foot cloth for rokushaku tenugui), amigasa (straw hat), kaginawa (grappling hook), and donohi or takezutsu (charred cloth in bamboo/copper container as body warmer and fire starter).
Imagine being so unexpected and sneaky that you can literally disassemble a _door_ to get to your intended target
This reminds of a show from Gaijin Goombah's UA-cam channel called Which Ninja. It's very entertaining. He referenced a different book called The Bansenshukai.
5:56 So that is why Sarutobi Ayame (猿飛 あやめ) had a scarf.
no
Your videos about japenese weapons and ninja tools are very interesting
Always know where your towel is!
Thank you for your videos.
Very fascinating video! Thank you, Shogo.
I`ve watched like 40 videos in a day. Wonderful channel!
Thank you for an informative video
Another great and informative Video by Shogo, looking forward for more. :DDDD
I think of Nintama Rantaro once you talk about ninjas ahahahaha 🤪
Wow, It's mesmerizing. Thanks for your work, it's exhilarating❤
Amazing video as always, FYI Assassins it's pronounced A-sass-ins
really nice tools! the uchi take seems really interesting and the shirokohas a facinating dessing
imagine just chilling in your house and suddenly a ninja full on dissasembles your whole door
A question :
Why are you asking us to put our playback speed to around 1.25x~2.0x?
At 0:24
im wondering too... i tried it and its too fast, i prefer the usual play speed
@@saffron1996 same for me
Probably to keep people's attention. 1.25x works well for me
@@allenmudrovcic same but I prefer the normal speed of the Video than Speeding it up
I’ve shared this opinion of it being too fast at 1.5+.
2nd and nice video both entertaining and informative.
thats interesting and shows! they were really clever! i watched the uchi-take video too, seemingly a useful tool! the amigasa are interesting - i would love to know more about them.. and the sekihitsu - thats a cool thing, read a secret message and erase it easily, to leave no trace 👍
Cloth like that's good to wrap a forearm in for fights.
I can throw a kozuka knife that fits into a samurai saya like a ninja kuni or throwing dart/spike with ease and power which leads me to believe the skill of the ninja was great due to how primitive some of the throwing weapons were staying the same with no need of evolution.
Please make a video on samuri armour and different types of weapons
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…. So… thats why you should always remember your towel.
Crowbars are handy tools indeed.
Honestly, I am not surprised on the hand towel.. Ninja missions are mostly stealth and infiltration. They are not meant to be assassins most of the time...
That is what makes them interesting, somehow...
The kunai was definitely had/has multiple uses to them, not sure why they wouldn't be included. They weren't really throwing weapons but if I remember correctly, digging tools.
I'm gonna keep asking: what does the sign behind dude say?
It is sort of a family motto. Can't remember which relative had the original, but his is a copy based on it. The general translation is "Do the best you can, and wait for nature to take care of the rest."
@@davidl5452 thank you very much. Have a great day
8:11 thats very similar to a old cowboy technique using a animal horn used to keep a fire portable in the wild west(fires r hard to make without lighters its possible but it hard even if u know what ur doing)
I have a few questions? What or how would these 7 "tools" look in or with present items today? Like what would the grappling hook/rope be substituted for today? Would a string saw be used or a slim saw?? And what kind of portable rations/medicines would be used today?
Pagodite and graphite must share a common weakness in that friction on the writing can damage the message. This means, that yes, while quite affordable, even today, I can't be sure that ninjas didn't carry a more permanent writing implement as a backup, for taking ongoing notes, for creating caches of information, or just things that you'd want something like indian ink to do that graphite or pagodite can't.
Compare the list to what modern bushcraft, hikers, and foot soldiers use. Also compare to the items found on frozen cave men. Cordage, cloth, candle(fire starters), cutting tools, cover(hat)
I'm dying on the hand towel I think these ninja read the Hitchhikers guide
8:29 I thought uchi-take is a fire piston. Fire piston is a primitive match common in southeast asia where you lit the tinder inside using the compressed air.
I got all right
Shogo, those pixelations make me nervous dude.... D=
man i would give all my money and possessions to humbly live in the countryside in Japan..sure it would take alot of adapting but the revitalization you would probably feel would be better than any drug
Ninja EDC
Nice topic. But I'd love to watch a video on Japanese armor, as I have seen some of them in private exhibitions in Europe. Many of them came from the USA.
Thanks in advance.
is the uchi-take the same tool as donohi ?
ninjas are hoopy froods
This video is Madara Uchiha Weapons Arsenals List
Is it true that a ninja attempted to kill Oda Nobunaga by shooting him twice with a matchlock gun
A knife is always and makeing your own weapons Use any Oppertunity in the moment in ninjitsu there is no fair fighting or rules nor is it a sport for scoring points. everything goes it is about surviving.
No reason to adjust the play speed. You speak English very well.
Oneday i will study ninjutsu and become the king of pirates and defeat the colossal titan
If you're going after titans make sure you catch 'em all.
@@pauls7318 yes i know so they cant go supersaiyan
To accomplish that, you will have to do 100 pushups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats, and run 10km a day in 3 years.
Good luck dattebayo!
Ah this is interesting.
But what were the knee pads and elbow pads that ninja wore called?
Everyone has seen the teenage mutant ninja turtles right? Specifically the 2003 series which shows the turtles wearing brown colored knee pads and elbow pads.
I assume some ninja wore something for knee protection that could stay on without sliding of when they ran and fully bent their knees. Does anyone know what they were called? I genuinely want to buy something like this for myself for hiking. The typical knee pads always slide of my knees when I walk and run
Why is ninja sword, shuriken, and kunai not included do they not use it in battle
See Mr. shogo . I want to know how your country Japan become superpower and I hard work tell about it . Hi I am from India . I am tamil
Greetings. I recommend the channel Voices from the Past. There a gentleman reads original historical texts (chronicles, diaries, documents), that explain many things. There are several compilation videos about Japan's fast transformation ever since the isolation period ended.
Also, there is an irreverent but informative channel called Linfamy that's about Japanese history and folklore. Good luck.
I forgot, there is also the channel Cool History Bros, about East Asian history and culture. Mostly Chinese and Korean, but also useful to understand the interactions between the countries there.
They were specialists in there art.Really Commandos who rely on guile,cunning and deception to achieve their goals.Interesting.
Your channel is Kekkai genkkai genjutsu from the shippuden era
Where in Michigan did you live? I'm from Michigan, but currently living in Thailand.
hello Shogo
So if these items were found on someone, would that be conclusive evidence that they were probably a ninja (i.e., criminal)?
The book wasn't widely released until much later. A working man carrying tools isn't odd at all.
All the tools were light firstly great for long trips, I believe the downside would be if any experienced soldier caught someone in imperial Japan with tools like this, it would have raised some suspicion because of the general assumption that they may have been used mostly by Ninjas or should we assume this is what people carried everyday ?
The one thing in here that would be hard to explain, is the grappling hook. Everything else could be a perfectly reasonable thing for a traveler to carry with them, especially when you consider that the saw was meant to be hidden. Unless of course, it was common for Edo-period Japanese travelers to carry grappling hooks for crossing rivers, which is unlikely but possible.
I'm surprised the kunai, or a similar short blade, isn't included in there. As I understand it, it was used as something of a survival knife as well as a digging and climbing tool, and I know I'd never go ranging without a knife. Far from me to contradict the masters, I'm just surprised.
Shikoro is Kunai shaped.
For the YT gods!!
I carry the modern equivalents
Don't forget to bring a towel.
ilagine sawing trough a wooden wall when the windows are made of paper
rokushakubo
Are there real ninja clans?
Don't forget to bring a towel
Shogo-san check this out, cool techniques, Judo throws from the battlefield, youtube(dot)com/watch?v=lVOdRGl54qI
My comment always disappears whenever I comment a link, that's why I replace the . with (dot), I don't know why that happens.
1st
You're maybe first,
You may be last.
The point is just
that no one asked.
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