Ninja Researcher Yuji Yamada Supervises Bilingual Book 'NINJA'
The book puts the historical record of ninja and the fiction-derived image built by works like 'NARUTO' between the same covers, addressed to the overseas readers who met ninja through fiction first.
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Natsume-sha will publish 'NINJA,' a Japanese-English bilingual book on ninja history and culture, on Thursday, October 15. Yuji Yamada, a Mie University professor and president of the International Ninja Research Association, supervises. The A6 format book runs 160 pages in all color at 1,650 yen. It covers ninja attire, tools and weapons, ninjutsu, ninja mansions, philosophy, and daily life across six parts, with illustrations.
The book is organized into six parts: ninja attire, tools and weapons, ninjutsu using the body and tools, ninjutsu using the mind and mysterious powers, ninja mansions, and the daily life of ninja. Illustrations run alongside the text throughout.
Yamada specializes in the history of medieval Japanese religion. Mie University began its ninja and ninjutsu research in 2012 with cooperation from Iga City and others, according to the article, because academic work on the subject was scarce at the time even as ninja were widely known overseas. The university now runs the International Ninja Research Center in Iga.
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