Because Stephen Hayes came back from Japan having been taught by Hatsumi, previous grandmaster of the Bujinkan, & started his “Shadows of Iga” training group. Shortly after we got the 80s “ninja boom”.
@@jimbutcher5712smugglers transport goods....has nothing to do with people not knowing who they are. And I think you have the wrong idea about how spies and ninjas work.
@@AncestorEmpireGaming In their waning years some might brag about their exploits or any other myriad of reasons. Use that smooth brain of yours to think about it.
@@proj3cT5150pretty sure we all still love the lore around ninja, samurai and other ancient legendary warriors from around the world I love all things ninja, samurai, assassin and stealth
Lol i love ppl who don't understand that being a famous spy/ninja is like being a most famous painters, your only famous after your dead or out of the game
The interesting thing about 'Ninja' which I was gutted learning as I got older, was that the 'Ninja' that we think of today is a modern fabrication popularized by the West and Japan just rolled with it. The word also not being recorded to have been used historically. Ninja were nothing more than samurai who were tasked with roles of espionage, sabotage, reconnaissance and political manipulation. They very rarely engaged in combat as that was not their purpose. They did not wear black attire as a rule as this would make them easily recognizable. They masqueraded as fishermen, builders, farmers, hence farming weapon such as nunchaku (used to beat rice), bo (used to carry water buckets), sai (garden tools used for planting seeds), kama (field scythes), shuriken (roof washers), etc. 'Ninjutsu' was not a method of self defense. Everything that set these techniques apart from Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu and similar disciplines of the time was merely the techniques used to hide, gather and relay information and navigation. They also employed the exact same styles of warfare, like Jujutsu, Aikijutsu, Iaido, Kenjutsu, Kyūdō, Bajutsu,etc. And there were even people specializing in what we think of today as 'Ninjutsu' who ere not trained in martial arts at all. Apart from that they used the exact same styles as most samurai. Hanzo also was not a 'Ninja' at all. He was a Samurai from a long standing and well established family. He was, however, tasked to lead the Samurai Clans of Iga, who excelled at espionage and sabotage, by Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was not their defacto leader. It was merely during their employment under the Tokugawa. He was not one of them and prior to that point merely had good relations with the Iga families. The Koga were also not what we now think of as 'Ninja'. They were lesser samurai families who merely often employed methods of espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. Ninja, or what we understand today was not a seperate class from Samurai. They were cut from the same cloth but specialized in a certain branch of warfare, just like Ashigaru were different from Gokenin, or Hatamoto, etc.
Very nicely put ... when I was younger I thought ninjas were what the movie showed us but I was very wrong I started studying and learning what I could to adapt some of their teachings to my own life and philosophy
I saw an excellent video on UA-cam from an American who is an expert in feudal Japan and lives over there. He shared much of the same historically accurate info you shared and more. He revealed Hanzo's nickname was "The Demon Samurai". He wasn't even called a Ninja. Also, the term Shinobi "stealer in" is the more historically accurate term for ninja.
You're right, however don't feel disheartened about it, as you said the more authentic aspect is far more interesting. The popular image of the ninja that exists today is almost an inevitability of story telling tropes, and it's probably what got us intrigued in the first place. It's the culmination of a complex role, in a complex context, that has been simplified and stereotyped for a general audience. It's a caricature. Unfortunately the perpetuated caricature has outgrown the more practical concepts. That caricature probably started in Japanese artwork and plays so that the audience could instantly recognise that characters role; much like a witch having a pointy hat and broom (which originated from women selling beer wanting to standout in a market). This is also compounded when the people in your community are highly agreeable, combined with the profiteers adage of "give the people what they want", and imaginative people inserting their ideas, like the magic from Japanese folklore. Imagine a conversation where a highly enthusiastic western tourist excitedly claims "I heard that ninjas could become invisible!", you want to be polite, keep the conversation going, and don't want to destroy their enthusiasm. It also sounds ninja like, and someone probably did say that to them. You'd probably agreed with them. The symbolism in folklore is metaphoric, profound, and enriching. Yet for some bizarre reason when stories are depicted on TV and film, the live action element seems to make it more real to us. However when you think about it, a lot of the filler and fluff you see in film just wouldn't make sense. Can you really imagine a professional solider or spy somersaulting across a battlefield? Security forces have always had, and still have, the same roles and responsibilities. There have always been professionals that have enforced their state's intent, and professionals tasked with understanding potential threats. The nouns used to name those groups have also changed trough time. What was scouting is now recognisance. The historic terms were based on their region, function, or where those people came from; for example Kusa (Grass), Rappa (Rioter), Suppa (Wonderer), Iga No Mono (Person from Iga) Koga No Mono (Person from Koga), and Shinobi No Mono (Concealed person). During the Sengoku (Warring states) period, these groups had responsibility for guerrilla warfare which could include scouting, raiding and sabotage. A few of their descendants that survived the Sengoku period into the Edo period would find employment in the Oniwaban as Onmitsu, and adapt their inherited skills in intelligence gathering, to surveillance, burglary, and networking. I think of the modern term "Ninja" like the modern term "Commando", that is as a contemporary term to describe the requirements, roles, and responsibilities of guerrilla warfare that have always persisted. The unfortunate reality has always been that not all soldiers are of equal value, most were responsible for fighting and holding their ground for as long as possible, including samurai, and that was their value. However if your responsibility is to gather military intelligence it is obvious that you need an understanding of military things, can survive long enough to return to your superiors with that information, and that you can communicate that information with credibility and authority. As has always been the case, a sensible commander is going to entrust that intelligence gathering responsibility to their most capable and reliable personnel, and in the context of the Sengoku period that would be samurai, either from your own skilled personnel, or recruited from trusted specialists groups. For the professional soldiers and/or law enforcement that these people would have been, and the seriousness, consideration, planing and risk that they'd have taken in their responsibilities there would have been nothing "just" or "merely" about their jobs. They would deliberately put themselves into high risk environments and, unlike their conventional colleagues, they would be expected to return safely. Another complexity is that people from Iga and Koga were known to establish intelligence networks to share and trade information amongst themselves and to cultivate sources from the community. So, although there might be a jizamurai from Iga or Koga investigating something, their informants from the community could also be described as and understood as shinobi. Anyway, I pretty much agree with you. There's no less skill between the reality of how people did "ninja" work historically and the impressive circus tricks that TV "ninja" display.
Now I'm almost certain that the script for this video essay was written by AI. Not only an occasional use of AI generative art that look bizarre, swords held backwards or mangled hands, stuck as fillers between stock photos of actual man-made art. The moment he gets to "Jinenkan Hatsumi" I realized that it was AI, down to the script, and I could tell from a mile because I used to study at Bujinkan and am still following and researching and practicing at home (in addition to other Koryu which I have an actual teacher for). Hatsumi Masaaki (Yoshiaki) is the headmaster of Bujinkan, his student Manaka Unsui broke-off from Bujinkan to create Jinenkan, it must have been all scrambled by an AI author who butchered the whole thing, piecing together bits of information in a cohesive yet incorrect way. It was Takamatsu's grandfather (referred to as Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu by Bujinkan and Bugei Ryuha Daijiten) who taught ninjutsu (Gyokko Ryu, Shinden Fudo Ryu, Togakure Ryu, Gyokushin Ryu, and Komugakure Ryu) to Takamatsu (Takamatsu also studies other martial arts from Mizuta Sensei (Takagi Yoshin Ryu) and Ishitani Sensei (Kukishin Ryu, Gikan Ryu, and another branch of Hontai/Takagi Yoshin Ryu)). And there is no lack of photos and videos the creator of this list could have used for the segment about Hatsumi, he's is very much alive and well and still training, there are thousands of photos and videos of him online, he authored many books and instructional videos; and there's no shortage of photos of his teacher Takamatsu Toshitsugu (Chosui) either, there are even some old videos of him. This makes me doubt rest of the information in this essay is not botched as well.
This commenter is right. Mishmashing the word Jinenkan into a hybrid confusion with Hatsumi reeks of an AI mixup. A researching human would not have garbled these things together. If you don't know, it's because you don't know. He set straight facts about the scenario. And Genbukan didn't need mentioning because it wasn't relevant in context to the video's content. Jinenkan however was addressed and yes - completely erroneously. It's a wonder even how this mixup could come about, even via AI. Is the point of the video to inform? Or to make the theoretical author feel better about needing some improvement of the presented info even though it's going to misinform people about a thing?
I knew that my fav hattori hanzo was going to be the top one ninja in this list cause i have already known about his legend says that he was the great ninja in history of time . Litrally in that period people use to call him demon hanzo because he was like a demon when it cames to war or fighting . His skills was on whole another level . He was a leder of ega ninja clan and also considered as a samurai due to his status and respect in shogon tokugawas army ❤❤❤❤
A lot of people are forgetting the time period. Most of them were famous after they died or stopped being a ninja. In this time period even if someone knew your name they likely didn’t know what you looked liked considering ‘photos’ were just drawings.
The showcasing the Ten Ninja legends of all time is great. All of the Ninja Shadow Warriors of Japan are the best of the best that ever lived by doing Special Reconnaissance Missions, hostage rescue, Direct HVT missions, Direct Raids and Black ops specialists in espionage and Unconventional Warfare tactics. The Ninjas are the world's original special Forces Warriors.
Loved playing the samurai warriors games. Felt disappointed upon knowing that fuma kotaro is actually proficient with the kusarigama. They put the moveset to hattori hanzo instead, making kotaro as sort of demon ninja with extendable arms.
This actually shows how much the Naruto Author researched the Japanese history to make some accurate characters that are relatable to the real life Historical figures 🧐
Sandayu Momochi was an Iga ninja & there was a story that he & Nagato Fujibayashi were one person. Also Mochizuki Chiyome, Saizo Kirigakure- Ten braves of the Sanada clan, Kumawaka, and also Jubei Yagyu studied the techniques of the Iga ninja clan.
For those who mock the title of this content. Famous in pre internet time is different than now. In the past, famous means people talked about your actions but there were no photo, no video, tiktok. Remember the ninja were in action where there no modern journalistic etc. Information was spread from mouth to mouth. Mix a lot with bias, rumors, propaganda etc. People heard smth big happened but there was further clarity for the public.
@@signor_zuzzu Hanzo himself is a descendant of the Iga, which were formed by villagers. Some were lower class and high class. Later on yes, that type of training was only given to someone descendant from the Iga or Kōga clans which in time served Daimiyōs and rose to the samruai class like the Hattoris under Tokugawa; and the samurai who would be also trained in Ninjutsu. It's similar to European history where saboteurs or spies of lower classes would be later be made landed knights.
@@fatdan172501 the video literally starts with, and I quote, " the ninja were a warrior class". That's historically incorrect, Ninja (shinobi) it's not a class like samurai, it's a job that anyone can do.
I won’t fault your logic, but it is unreasonable to believe that with such a notorious occupation that your accomplishments won’t be sung until long after everyone involved was dead?
nice video and i think this might have been a mistake on the editing or recoridng but tokugawa Ieyasu was not the first Shogun. but the final shougunate where the first was Minamoto Yorimoto back in 1192,
Correction : Masaaki Hatsumi -Sernsei ( not Jinenkan) studied under Takamatsu-Sensei , and inherited the 6 Samurai lineages and 3 Shinobi Lineages that comprise of the Bujinkan . Jininkan is the the name of a similar school headed by one of Hatsumi-Sensei's students , Fumio Manaka-Sensei .
Hey there fellow Takamatsu-den practitioner (I guess, you might be affiliated with Bujinkan, Jinenkan, Genbukan, To-Shin Do, AKBAN, whatever)! I think that this video essay was written by AI, it goes deeper than occasional use of AI generative art into the script. It's like someone (or something!) took pieces of information from the internet and stitched it together in a way that sounds cohesive but fails to get the whole thing correct. And it's not like there's a shortage of videos and photos of Hatsumi, or even Takamatsu.
@nirkoblenc6870 Howdy , fellow Takanatsu-den practitioner... I thought that was probably what was going on, and thank you very much for that input. Just wanted to air that correction. Thanks, and be safe out there ...
Great video and information! Was very interesting and i actually knew about the top 2 ninjas. Played a lot Samurai warrior games and there were two characters Kotaro Fuma and Hanzo Hattori! I plated only them and now it's looking like the characters in the game are motivated from real persons!
The samurai and ninja are arguably the two greatest warriors in human history, the only other two warriors I think are equal to them are the Spartans and Athenians
Idk u could definitely argue that Zulu were in that conversation considering they innovated gorilla warfare nd nearly perfected encirclement formations while facing far more superior armed forces
One mistake I must point out. Tokugawa Ieyasu was NOT the first shogun. He was the first Tokugawa shogun in 1603, however the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates long preceded this. Minamoto Yoritomo of the Kamakuta became the first shogun in august 1192
They forgot to mention that Fuma Kotaro was a title, each ninja master who took on the role of leadership in his clan adopted the name, ensuring anonymity, making it almost impossible to identify their shinobi to this day.
If Hanzo was not on the top it's gonna be crazy. What if Scorpio and Sub Zero really exist 🤣, you know we have the real Hanzo in history but without super powers, is there any that could be the suitable character for Sub Zero. 😂
I love the ninja way of life but I always wonder, if they were such a secret then how are they known in the first place🤔 but then again they're only human.....someone eventually talked 👈
Alors hideyoshi n'a jamais été Shogun de pars son origine roturiere mais son titre était Taiko à savoir régent. Également la prononciation japonaise est à revoire. Le u se prononce ou. C'est assez déroutant et fait un peux sortir de la vidéo.
Well ninjas should be stealth and low profile. Their job was like Mercenaries. All I know is Storm shadow a fictional character from gijoe who was very famous as a ninja.
If you're a famous ninja you failed
Lol.
in the 80's the ninja explotation was amazing
Because Stephen Hayes came back from Japan having been taught by Hatsumi, previous grandmaster of the Bujinkan, & started his “Shadows of Iga” training group. Shortly after we got the 80s “ninja boom”.
If they were that famous... maybe they failed at their job 🙃
🤡 the internet clown lalith9401 ladies and gentlemen
Sorry, but if you’re the most famous smuggler, the most famous spy, or the most famous ninja, you’re doing it wrong.
@@jimbutcher5712smugglers transport goods....has nothing to do with people not knowing who they are. And I think you have the wrong idea about how spies and ninjas work.
@@trahapace150he’s not wrong.
Famous assassins eliminate the purpose of stealth.
@@AncestorEmpireGaming In their waning years some might brag about their exploits or any other myriad of reasons. Use that smooth brain of yours to think about it.
I loved Ninja stuff in the 1980’s.
Me too !!!
We used to run around like the ninjas from the movies back then.
Sometimes I still think I’m a ninja.
Me too.
🙋🏼♀️🙋🏾🙋🏿♀️🙋🏾♂️🙋♀️we all did to..😂😂
@@proj3cT5150pretty sure we all still love the lore around ninja, samurai and other ancient legendary warriors from around the world
I love all things ninja, samurai, assassin and stealth
Lol i love ppl who don't understand that being a famous spy/ninja is like being a most famous painters, your only famous after your dead or out of the game
yup after your dead people Appreciate your work
Really makes you appreciate how much more they’re appreciated these days, like the annual Ninja parade in Modesto.
if you are famous as a ninja than you field as a ninja
I hate to be that guy but hatsumi is still alive and is still head of school of the togakure tyu
In these times if you were famous then you would be hired by the lords to work for them. If nobody knew who you were, you don’t get any jobs
Suddenly I remembered the game "Tenchu" 💙
I remember that game also and the sequels right behind it
Rikimaru
O ya that game was wicked cool
Same, some weird dialog tho. Lol
Sho Kosugi or one of his Sons,not sure which can’t remember?done the animation for Rikimaru.
Wait. None of them are turtles?!?!?!?!
hahaha😂
😂
Hahaha!!!!!!!!
It says “in JAPAN”
Maybe they didn't have a rat to teach them 🤔
Sho Kosugi is my fave Ninja growing up in the 80s…
Yes he was the best.
Back to shadows
👺🥷👹
Pray for Death was the start for me.
The interesting thing about 'Ninja' which I was gutted learning as I got older, was that the 'Ninja' that we think of today is a modern fabrication popularized by the West and Japan just rolled with it. The word also not being recorded to have been used historically.
Ninja were nothing more than samurai who were tasked with roles of espionage, sabotage, reconnaissance and political manipulation. They very rarely engaged in combat as that was not their purpose.
They did not wear black attire as a rule as this would make them easily recognizable. They masqueraded as fishermen, builders, farmers, hence farming weapon such as nunchaku (used to beat rice), bo (used to carry water buckets), sai (garden tools used for planting seeds), kama (field scythes), shuriken (roof washers), etc. 'Ninjutsu' was not a method of self defense. Everything that set these techniques apart from Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu and similar disciplines of the time was merely the techniques used to hide, gather and relay information and navigation.
They also employed the exact same styles of warfare, like Jujutsu, Aikijutsu, Iaido, Kenjutsu, Kyūdō, Bajutsu,etc. And there were even people specializing in what we think of today as 'Ninjutsu' who ere not trained in martial arts at all. Apart from that they used the exact same styles as most samurai.
Hanzo also was not a 'Ninja' at all. He was a Samurai from a long standing and well established family. He was, however, tasked to lead the Samurai Clans of Iga, who excelled at espionage and sabotage, by Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was not their defacto leader. It was merely during their employment under the Tokugawa. He was not one of them and prior to that point merely had good relations with the Iga families. The Koga were also not what we now think of as 'Ninja'. They were lesser samurai families who merely often employed methods of espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance.
Ninja, or what we understand today was not a seperate class from Samurai. They were cut from the same cloth but specialized in a certain branch of warfare, just like Ashigaru were different from Gokenin, or Hatamoto, etc.
This was very informative. Thank you for your time, effort, generosity,....
Very nicely put ... when I was younger I thought ninjas were what the movie showed us but I was very wrong I started studying and learning what I could to adapt some of their teachings to my own life and philosophy
I saw an excellent video on UA-cam from an American who is an expert in feudal Japan and lives over there. He shared much of the same historically accurate info you shared and more. He revealed Hanzo's nickname was "The Demon Samurai". He wasn't even called a Ninja. Also, the term Shinobi "stealer in" is the more historically accurate term for ninja.
You're right, however don't feel disheartened about it, as you said the more authentic aspect is far more interesting. The popular image of the ninja that exists today is almost an inevitability of story telling tropes, and it's probably what got us intrigued in the first place.
It's the culmination of a complex role, in a complex context, that has been simplified and stereotyped for a general audience. It's a caricature. Unfortunately the perpetuated caricature has outgrown the more practical concepts. That caricature probably started in Japanese artwork and plays so that the audience could instantly recognise that characters role; much like a witch having a pointy hat and broom (which originated from women selling beer wanting to standout in a market). This is also compounded when the people in your community are highly agreeable, combined with the profiteers adage of "give the people what they want", and imaginative people inserting their ideas, like the magic from Japanese folklore.
Imagine a conversation where a highly enthusiastic western tourist excitedly claims "I heard that ninjas could become invisible!", you want to be polite, keep the conversation going, and don't want to destroy their enthusiasm. It also sounds ninja like, and someone probably did say that to them. You'd probably agreed with them.
The symbolism in folklore is metaphoric, profound, and enriching. Yet for some bizarre reason when stories are depicted on TV and film, the live action element seems to make it more real to us. However when you think about it, a lot of the filler and fluff you see in film just wouldn't make sense. Can you really imagine a professional solider or spy somersaulting across a battlefield?
Security forces have always had, and still have, the same roles and responsibilities. There have always been professionals that have enforced their state's intent, and professionals tasked with understanding potential threats. The nouns used to name those groups have also changed trough time. What was scouting is now recognisance.
The historic terms were based on their region, function, or where those people came from; for example Kusa (Grass), Rappa (Rioter), Suppa (Wonderer), Iga No Mono (Person from Iga) Koga No Mono (Person from Koga), and Shinobi No Mono (Concealed person). During the Sengoku (Warring states) period, these groups had responsibility for guerrilla warfare which could include scouting, raiding and sabotage. A few of their descendants that survived the Sengoku period into the Edo period would find employment in the Oniwaban as Onmitsu, and adapt their inherited skills in intelligence gathering, to surveillance, burglary, and networking.
I think of the modern term "Ninja" like the modern term "Commando", that is as a contemporary term to describe the requirements, roles, and responsibilities of guerrilla warfare that have always persisted.
The unfortunate reality has always been that not all soldiers are of equal value, most were responsible for fighting and holding their ground for as long as possible, including samurai, and that was their value.
However if your responsibility is to gather military intelligence it is obvious that you need an understanding of military things, can survive long enough to return to your superiors with that information, and that you can communicate that information with credibility and authority. As has always been the case, a sensible commander is going to entrust that intelligence gathering responsibility to their most capable and reliable personnel, and in the context of the Sengoku period that would be samurai, either from your own skilled personnel, or recruited from trusted specialists groups.
For the professional soldiers and/or law enforcement that these people would have been, and the seriousness, consideration, planing and risk that they'd have taken in their responsibilities there would have been nothing "just" or "merely" about their jobs. They would deliberately put themselves into high risk environments and, unlike their conventional colleagues, they would be expected to return safely.
Another complexity is that people from Iga and Koga were known to establish intelligence networks to share and trade information amongst themselves and to cultivate sources from the community. So, although there might be a jizamurai from Iga or Koga investigating something, their informants from the community could also be described as and understood as shinobi.
Anyway, I pretty much agree with you. There's no less skill between the reality of how people did "ninja" work historically and the impressive circus tricks that TV "ninja" display.
Ok nerd
Now I'm almost certain that the script for this video essay was written by AI. Not only an occasional use of AI generative art that look bizarre, swords held backwards or mangled hands, stuck as fillers between stock photos of actual man-made art. The moment he gets to "Jinenkan Hatsumi" I realized that it was AI, down to the script, and I could tell from a mile because I used to study at Bujinkan and am still following and researching and practicing at home (in addition to other Koryu which I have an actual teacher for). Hatsumi Masaaki (Yoshiaki) is the headmaster of Bujinkan, his student Manaka Unsui broke-off from Bujinkan to create Jinenkan, it must have been all scrambled by an AI author who butchered the whole thing, piecing together bits of information in a cohesive yet incorrect way. It was Takamatsu's grandfather (referred to as Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu by Bujinkan and Bugei Ryuha Daijiten) who taught ninjutsu (Gyokko Ryu, Shinden Fudo Ryu, Togakure Ryu, Gyokushin Ryu, and Komugakure Ryu) to Takamatsu (Takamatsu also studies other martial arts from Mizuta Sensei (Takagi Yoshin Ryu) and Ishitani Sensei (Kukishin Ryu, Gikan Ryu, and another branch of Hontai/Takagi Yoshin Ryu)). And there is no lack of photos and videos the creator of this list could have used for the segment about Hatsumi, he's is very much alive and well and still training, there are thousands of photos and videos of him online, he authored many books and instructional videos; and there's no shortage of photos of his teacher Takamatsu Toshitsugu (Chosui) either, there are even some old videos of him. This makes me doubt rest of the information in this essay is not botched as well.
ok nerd
@@NostalgicMem0ries, No he honors them correctly. You're the poor student.
A shame he did not mention Shoto Tanemura of the Genbukan... Takamatsu Sensei s black sheep
@@NostalgicMem0ries ,so you feel inferior and have to put him down. Be better.
This commenter is right. Mishmashing the word Jinenkan into a hybrid confusion with Hatsumi reeks of an AI mixup. A researching human would not have garbled these things together. If you don't know, it's because you don't know. He set straight facts about the scenario. And Genbukan didn't need mentioning because it wasn't relevant in context to the video's content. Jinenkan however was addressed and yes - completely erroneously. It's a wonder even how this mixup could come about, even via AI. Is the point of the video to inform? Or to make the theoretical author feel better about needing some improvement of the presented info even though it's going to misinform people about a thing?
Shinobi were samurai, who specialized in espionage.
not all of them.
I knew that my fav hattori hanzo was going to be the top one ninja in this list cause i have already known about his legend says that he was the great ninja in history of time . Litrally in that period people use to call him demon hanzo because he was like a demon when it cames to war or fighting . His skills was on whole another level . He was a leder of ega ninja clan and also considered as a samurai due to his status and respect in shogon tokugawas army ❤❤❤❤
yes if it wasnt for him japans history could have been very different! because he and his ninjas saved tokugawas life
@@fourshore502 yepp you are exactly correct my friend he was the personal bodyguard Shogun Tokugawa ❤️❤️❤️
Yes I used to Train as a ninja So that I could become the best dragon ninja like tokugawa
I love the Tokugawa Shogunate
Hanzo was a traitor that went to work for the Tokugawa after he helped them burn Iga down to the ground
Thank you for showcasing all of these warriors 👊🏻
Fuuma Kotaro always be my favourite Ninja.
A lot of people are forgetting the time period. Most of them were famous after they died or stopped being a ninja. In this time period even if someone knew your name they likely didn’t know what you looked liked considering ‘photos’ were just drawings.
People have the wrong impression of Ninpo , expecting some fantastic amazing move's in reality you won't see it
The showcasing the Ten Ninja legends of all time is great. All of the Ninja Shadow Warriors of Japan are the best of the best that ever lived by doing Special Reconnaissance Missions, hostage rescue, Direct HVT missions, Direct Raids and Black ops specialists in espionage and Unconventional Warfare tactics. The Ninjas are the world's original special Forces Warriors.
Loved playing the samurai warriors games. Felt disappointed upon knowing that fuma kotaro is actually proficient with the kusarigama. They put the moveset to hattori hanzo instead, making kotaro as sort of demon ninja with extendable arms.
This actually shows how much the Naruto Author researched the Japanese history to make some accurate characters that are relatable to the real life Historical figures 🧐
This is not real life lol
Except Sasuke was legitimately a stealth ninja.
@Lemuel928 there no this isn't real at all.
Untill he dreamt and create Kaiju in the series
These were all real people fellas, or legends!
"Ninja" or "Shinobi-no-mono" was not a warrior class. It was an occupation.
Who were mostly samurai
@@fatdan172501actually no. They were mostly peasants. Sure you had some ronin around but they were peasants. Their weapons and tactics reflect this.
@@OmniMale I heard that about half of them were women.
@@andremiller1566 lol. Can't tell you. As peasants who basically practiced guerrilla warfare, I wouldn't be surprised.
Sandayu Momochi was an Iga ninja & there was a story that he & Nagato Fujibayashi were one person. Also Mochizuki Chiyome, Saizo Kirigakure- Ten braves of the Sanada clan, Kumawaka, and also Jubei Yagyu studied the techniques of the Iga ninja clan.
ninja is like an ordinary soldier who is trained to become a special force
Not at all
Not even close???
@ghdude8372 no, that's not what they were
@@LIONTAMER3D that’s what I’m telling HIM
great video
Now i wanna be a ninja (but really I always wanted to be a ninja)
For those who mock the title of this content. Famous in pre internet time is different than now. In the past, famous means people talked about your actions but there were no photo, no video, tiktok. Remember the ninja were in action where there no modern journalistic etc. Information was spread from mouth to mouth. Mix a lot with bias, rumors, propaganda etc. People heard smth big happened but there was further clarity for the public.
The greatest ninja is the one you have never and will never hear about.
Ninja never was a class like Samurai, it was a job that anyone could do.
They were more like clans but even some Samurai families like the Hattori hailed from Ninja clans and rose in ranks during the Sengoku Period
@@Thiago_Alves_Souza from what I know is the other way around. Samurai formed clans and some of them happen to be specialized in ninjutsu.
@@signor_zuzzu Hanzo himself is a descendant of the Iga, which were formed by villagers. Some were lower class and high class. Later on yes, that type of training was only given to someone descendant from the Iga or Kōga clans which in time served Daimiyōs and rose to the samruai class like the Hattoris under Tokugawa; and the samurai who would be also trained in Ninjutsu.
It's similar to European history where saboteurs or spies of lower classes would be later be made landed knights.
Shinobi WERE samurai.
@@fatdan172501 the video literally starts with, and I quote, " the ninja were a warrior class".
That's historically incorrect, Ninja (shinobi) it's not a class like samurai, it's a job that anyone can do.
If they’re the most famous ninja doesn’t that make them the worst one?
I won’t fault your logic, but it is unreasonable to believe that with such a notorious occupation that your accomplishments won’t be sung until long after everyone involved was dead?
Ninpo is the ancient art you speak of
LOVE THIS THANKS FOR POSTING!!!!💓🤟🤘
Is it me or a lot of these names were used in Naruto?
You’re not wrong. Many ninjas in anime, manga, games, and movies and TV shows in Japan got their names from these historical figures.
Well yeah, famous folklore tends to be used as source materials for a fictional story
@@zacharytate430 Thank you I thought I was losing it.
i wonder what they would think of the word "ninja"
nice video and i think this might have been a mistake on the editing or recoridng but tokugawa Ieyasu was not the first Shogun. but the final shougunate where the first was Minamoto Yorimoto back in 1192,
徳川幕府の初代将軍としてなら間違っていないと思います。
よく初代将軍と言われる事がある。
This is the most comprehensive list video of ninjas in real life thank you
Studying ninpo-taijutsu myself the best ninja is the one you never heard of.
Correction : Masaaki Hatsumi -Sernsei ( not Jinenkan) studied under Takamatsu-Sensei , and inherited the 6 Samurai lineages and 3 Shinobi Lineages that comprise of the Bujinkan . Jininkan is the the name of a similar school headed by one of Hatsumi-Sensei's students , Fumio Manaka-Sensei .
Hey there fellow Takamatsu-den practitioner (I guess, you might be affiliated with Bujinkan, Jinenkan, Genbukan, To-Shin Do, AKBAN, whatever)! I think that this video essay was written by AI, it goes deeper than occasional use of AI generative art into the script. It's like someone (or something!) took pieces of information from the internet and stitched it together in a way that sounds cohesive but fails to get the whole thing correct. And it's not like there's a shortage of videos and photos of Hatsumi, or even Takamatsu.
@nirkoblenc6870 Howdy , fellow Takanatsu-den practitioner... I thought that was probably what was going on, and thank you very much for that input. Just wanted to air that correction. Thanks, and be safe out there ...
@@BrokenTengu99 Thank you and stay safe too! Have a productive and fun practice!
@nirkoblenc6870 And You as well!
La bujinkan es un negocio muy rentable ,y no es ninjutsu.......
Really nice video. Japan history rocks.
Great video and information! Was very interesting and i actually knew about the top 2 ninjas. Played a lot Samurai warrior games and there were two characters Kotaro Fuma and Hanzo Hattori! I plated only them and now it's looking like the characters in the game are motivated from real persons!
It will be interesting to see how the ninja tradition will influence the western tradition
In 10 years ppl are gonna think Naruto is a documentary.
Naruto shouldve been on the list, ranked 1
Where’s Jinn Sakai??
Jin Sakai is a fictional character, he never existed. The way of the ghost fighting tactics were inspired by real historical events though.
The samurai and ninja are arguably the two greatest warriors in human history, the only other two warriors I think are equal to them are the Spartans and Athenians
The Vikings?
@@Dowhatkennydoesthey lost numerous times..and then conquered
@@Heartscarrs vikings have some most legendary warriors & leaders.
Idk u could definitely argue that Zulu were in that conversation considering they innovated gorilla warfare nd nearly perfected encirclement formations while facing far more superior armed forces
@@caleb8593 ancient India & Vietnam are underrated. They defeated Mongols more than once I think
Fuma was featured in many dynasty warriors games and also onimusha dedicated a character after him 🔥
love the artwork!!
Very good content I was actually playing Elden ring while listening to this and it kind of inspired a character keep up the good work
Hatsumi Masaaki founded the Bujinkan. The Jinenkan was founded later by another student Manaka Fumio.
Imagine there were ninjas that did more or better but were very humble and or never had their stories told
“Capable of pulling off impossible feats”
Like summoning a thousand armed wooden Gundam, or an ethereal kaiju samurai that can cut mountains in half.
The ninja also had there own type of sword, the Ninjato.
One mistake I must point out. Tokugawa Ieyasu was NOT the first shogun. He was the first Tokugawa shogun in 1603, however the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates long preceded this. Minamoto Yoritomo of the Kamakuta became the first shogun in august 1192
Not for infamy.. The best shinobi you wouldn't even know they existed.
A famous ninja is like having a well-known secret...🤔
Where is the Yagyu Clan!?!
EDIT: Some dope art in there though.
That was a samurai school
Goemon's grandson way down the line was an expert in spycraft, security, and pulling off famous heists of jewelry and fine art.
They forgot to mention the Hokage Ninja😂😂😂
You forgot that hokage is a fiction
@@aaronjohnson1286and you forgot how to soot a joke.
I learned somewhere that ninjas were just samurai on stealth missions 🤔
Wow, I have heard of the first two, from one piece, but wow Hanzo reminds me of scorpion
Yeah I heard people find shuriken in Japan like they find arrowheads in America
The most famous ninjas in history were obviously some of the worst at their craft.
the last ninja dude was like
why use shuriken...use rocks
They used both
Weird That Hattori Hanzo is one of the Greatest Ninja's but also the gate of the Imperial Palace is Called Hanzo's Gate
Always fancied myself a bit of a ninja as a boy , loved ninja movies
To be a ninja , is too move in silence 😊
The greatest ninja is right behind you
There is no "chopping" with a katana, only slicing or stabbing
Love this story more great ninja
They forgot to mention that Fuma Kotaro was a title, each ninja master who took on the role of leadership in his clan adopted the name, ensuring anonymity, making it almost impossible to identify their shinobi to this day.
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Thank you, what I meant to say was that his name was a title, not a surname.
Plot twist, they were decoys for the best ninjas in history.
Amazing video!
Sho Kosugi was the greatest ninja that ever lived.
I love stories about ninja thanks for this video thumbs up bro
I played the heck out of Tenchu.
If Hanzo was not on the top it's gonna be crazy. What if Scorpio and Sub Zero really exist 🤣, you know we have the real Hanzo in history but without super powers, is there any that could be the suitable character for Sub Zero. 😂
Now we know where Naruto came from! 😂
I love the ninja way of life but I always wonder, if they were such a secret then how are they known in the first place🤔 but then again they're only human.....someone eventually talked 👈
Crazy to think that Goemon was born to boil like ODEN THE CHAD OF WANO-Kuni🫡🔥🔥
I was waiting for Naruto to be named dropped. 🤣
All ninja were samurai not all samurai were ninja
I could have sworn ninja started out as farmers oppressed by the samurai and the Shoguns they served that started to fight back
@@sean5558nope. They were Samurai who did scouting and spying. Most of what we think we know about ninjas and ninjutsu comes from manga in the 1910’s.
Alors hideyoshi n'a jamais été Shogun de pars son origine roturiere mais son titre était Taiko à savoir régent. Également la prononciation japonaise est à revoire. Le u se prononce ou. C'est assez déroutant et fait un peux sortir de la vidéo.
Hatsumi Sensei is over the Bujinkan.
Kotaro Fuma's greatest accomplishment is killing Hattori Hanzo.
Only reason they're known is because they left a journal.
Anyone else gonna point out that he said tokagawa ieasu was the first shogun
I want to be neenja, I want to be neenja
chop chop chooop
The lady ninjas where the most dangerous!!
Hanson also was 1 of the 1st to dual wield. Not Tantos either. Full Samurai swords
Anybody accidentally find their way here because they were trying to find the I want to be ninja song on UA-cam?😂
Hanzo aka scorpion my favourite
The American Ninja is the most famous ninja.
Im pretty sure Fuma was multiple people over time. One Kotaro would die so they would make another man Kotaro to make him seem immortal.
i have seen goemon movie in war first he kills the opponent king and then attack at his own king but gets killed by his friend
So that explains some of the character's names in Naruto.....
Well ninjas should be stealth and low profile. Their job was like Mercenaries. All I know is Storm shadow a fictional character from gijoe who was very famous as a ninja.
Thinking about Oden in that Boiler
For koga vs iga anime , watch Basilisk . Powered ninja clans at war !
It’s masaaki Hatsumi and it’s bujinkan
Oroku Saki
You forgot him 😂🤣😂
In Japan they are called Shinobi.
the narrator from Tenchu stealth assassins #1, I know that voice bro