17th Century Ninja Explains How To Be A Ninja // The Bansenshūkai // Japanese Primary Source

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @VoicesofthePast
    @VoicesofthePast  5 лет назад +42

    Thanks to Antony Cummins for the use of his translation. It is available on Amazon - www.amazon.com/Book-Ninja-Bansenshukai-Japans-Premier/dp/1780284934

    • @SgtPotShot
      @SgtPotShot 5 лет назад +6

      I have a copy, it's a great historical document. Cummins even notes where there were mistakes and typos, and the attempts to correct them.

    • @tim8602
      @tim8602 5 лет назад +2

      Is this the Ninja code or the Jedi code? Shinobe sounds a lot like Kenobi, hmmm!

    • @wizcoolc1
      @wizcoolc1 3 года назад

      Here it talks about fighting yet Cummins always say Ninja didn't fight?

  • @-haclong2366
    @-haclong2366 5 лет назад +446

    Plot twist: A woman wrote this while looking for her dream husband.

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 5 лет назад +18

      😂😂😂 thats what i thought, its like an ad in a dating service....he must have a sense of humour, and be able to recite Confucius and yoga practitioner, must love poetry and dancing. Lmfao! Wtf? What is this ninja doing? Not treading roof tops, but mingling with the upper class and cutting up the dance floor.

    • @Yarblocosifilitico
      @Yarblocosifilitico 5 лет назад +32

      @@shable1436 weren't they spies basically? Meaning the might have to impersonate a monk or an aristocrat (who would know poetry and philosophy). They did use things like smoke bombs but I bet a good ninja would only need to use it a couple times in his lifetime.
      Anyway, the bushido (samurai book) also portrays and ideal warrior which only very few could become (the challenge being more philosophical than physical).

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 5 лет назад +6

      @@Yarblocosifilitico spies collect data and dont blow their cover, undercover assassins is more closely fitting. Work your way to the important target (mark) and then strike and vanish, so i guess one had to acquire the skills to get close to important ppl and have vast knowledge in a bit of everything the upper classes were doing to fit in.

    • @tabinekoman
      @tabinekoman 5 лет назад +6

      Oh ninja my ninja

    • @tigernikki101
      @tigernikki101 5 лет назад

      🤣

  • @MrHanderson91
    @MrHanderson91 5 лет назад +283

    This is like a job requirement from 2014. Applicant must have a doctorate, 10 years relevant experience in this program five years relevant experience in that program. Entry level, starting salary 35000

    • @robinderoos1166
      @robinderoos1166 5 лет назад +52

      And be no older than 25, and accept unlimited over time without compensation

    • @zoesdada8923
      @zoesdada8923 5 лет назад +10

      More like $9 an hour with no benifits

    • @Hydraz13
      @Hydraz13 5 лет назад +3

      insaneweasel1 And be a master in martial arts!

    • @n0denz
      @n0denz 5 лет назад +4

      Another 5 years of experience in the program that requires 5 experience plus a certificate of authenticity from the genetic lab where scientists grew you in a tube where you were born with job experience coded into your DNA.

    • @bartfart3847
      @bartfart3847 5 лет назад +6

      This was all in the Past.
      2019 The economy is doing Great. The Unemployment rate is at 3.2%
      Thanks Trump
      If you are still unemployed... LOL

  • @grishy8203
    @grishy8203 5 лет назад +217

    "Those who have the above ten characteristics..." *just named like 40 characteristics*

    • @afterburyner
      @afterburyner 4 года назад +11

      And 50 of them are loyalty

    • @Sleepless4Life
      @Sleepless4Life 4 года назад +2

      It's just the NINJA WAY bro! You wouldn't understand!

    • @xandercorp6175
      @xandercorp6175 4 года назад +1

      If you can't parse the spoken word properly, you lack the wisdom of sages and can never attain jōnin status.

    • @gigastrike2
      @gigastrike2 3 года назад

      Characteristic #41: Must be able to divide by zero.

  • @MeMoshRocks
    @MeMoshRocks 5 лет назад +82

    So James Bond

    • @malahamavet
      @malahamavet 5 лет назад +14

      Yeah basically the true ninja were more like Bond and less like 47. You nailed it

  • @siechamontillado
    @siechamontillado 5 лет назад +167

    First rule of ninja club: you don't talk about ninja club.

    • @currahee1782
      @currahee1782 5 лет назад +19

      Second rule of Ninja Club: You do not talk about Ninja Club!

    • @ScottStratton
      @ScottStratton 5 лет назад +5

      James Richmond third rule of Ninja Club: you do write about Ninja Club so a video can be made far in the future.

    • @CN-wt2bj
      @CN-wt2bj 5 лет назад +3

      Third rule is don't write a book about ninja club.

  • @syukwan-kerr8118
    @syukwan-kerr8118 5 лет назад +122

    "Avoid falling for smooth-talking traps..." *jeez*

    • @SgtPotShot
      @SgtPotShot 5 лет назад +9

      I just hate it when the spike put tries to talk me into jumping in. I won't fall for your wiles, you devilish rogue!

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 5 лет назад +19

      What if they were talking about the other traps

    • @b-gambit1stblock74
      @b-gambit1stblock74 4 года назад +1

      I think what he means is that your real friends talk harshly truth about you while the fake ones talk softly

    • @jacobedward2401
      @jacobedward2401 3 года назад

      I thought he said "smooth talking tramps" lol

  • @bgaona
    @bgaona 5 лет назад +14

    Fantastic selection. Very revealing about the Japanese culture, not to mention provoking introspection on oneself.

  • @andycopland3179
    @andycopland3179 5 лет назад +9

    In the subject of Japan, I was in Greece recently and went to an Asian museum. The samurai armour was astonishing and I had no idea how intricate. Fascinating culture and history.

    • @369Æchilles
      @369Æchilles 4 года назад +1

      Sounded like the beginning of an indepth joke "I was in Greece lately but went to an Asian Museum" 😆

  • @learrus
    @learrus 4 года назад +13

    This is the kind of thing that should be listened to each day while first waking up

    • @calska140
      @calska140 3 года назад

      So you can realize what's required for greatness and realize it's impossibility and just go right back to sleep

    • @SlayerRiley
      @SlayerRiley 3 года назад +2

      @@calska140 Try to cultivate the opposite effect; encouragement to improve your mind, body and soul, one step at a time. :)

  • @calska140
    @calska140 3 года назад +9

    Ninja should be proficient in calculus 1-3 and be able to do complex derivatives in their head quicky. Ninja should also have a passing familiarity with topological algebra, statistics, matrix calculus, statics, dynamics, and master level knowledge of creating ornate woodcut prints on a level equal to Albrecht Durer.

  • @turbo.panther
    @turbo.panther 5 лет назад +5

    Information from the reading, comedy from the comments - a great combination!!

  • @lensy6
    @lensy6 5 лет назад +102

    17th century Watchmojo

  • @mukhumor
    @mukhumor 4 года назад +3

    Thank you for your interest in this position. Unfortunately our selection process has moved on and you have not been included at this stage. We wish you the best of luck in your future career.

  • @peterlawler2201
    @peterlawler2201 5 лет назад +59

    blind swordsmen also are good to hire according to tv

  • @alexandersilady4751
    @alexandersilady4751 5 лет назад +114

    So what you want out of a merciless spy and assassin is that he should be a nice, scholarly guy with a good family?

    • @malahamavet
      @malahamavet 5 лет назад +82

      Yes. They were not really assassins, they're more like secret agents. Most of the time they would be among people impersonating someone so they need to be good at it and know how to speak well to get what they want. They need to be cultured so they can impersonate anyone from other regions and know the customs and dialect of the place they are going to be sent so the enemy couldn't discover them.
      The good family requirement is so they have something to bind them to their land. Having your family's name at risk, having their life's at risk or even wanting to do stuff for your clan to gain prestige by defeating the enemy is a pretty good incentive. If everyone knows your family is harder for you to betray your Lord or sell his information to the enemy like a double agent, they said it in the text itself.
      If they send any random guy with nothing to lose then that guy could easily change sides. But a guy from a good family and with children couldn't do that. Unless he's a sociopath. It makes sense if you look at it with this mentality.
      Running on the roofs at night is not a day to day thing. We like the idea of a stealthy assassin but the reality is more like secret agents socializing with the enemy and being among people with a fake identity doing regular stuff

    • @StephenGillie
      @StephenGillie 5 лет назад +19

      So you're saying James Bond was a ninja?

    • @Hydraz13
      @Hydraz13 5 лет назад +2

      Vasilil Stan Good to know. I've been meaning to read up on the subject for a long time now. And now I might finally commit to buying some books on their ancient ways.

    • @n0denz
      @n0denz 5 лет назад +2

      @@StephenGillie James Bond had no family. MI6 recruits orphans for a reason.

    • @empirical_blade6926
      @empirical_blade6926 5 лет назад +7

      The last thing a Shinobi should do during a mission is to kill anyone, unless it is extremely neccesary.

  • @freakrx2349
    @freakrx2349 5 лет назад +113

    Does the text include Naruto running?

    • @whiteasfuck7263
      @whiteasfuck7263 5 лет назад +6

      Not all of us are fucking losers man
      God bless!

    • @geth7112
      @geth7112 5 лет назад +12

      @@whiteasfuck7263 but you are

    • @whiteasfuck7263
      @whiteasfuck7263 5 лет назад +10

      @@geth7112
      Oh, you got me man!
      Damn! Guess I better start fapping to cartoons, supporting socialist ideas, living in my mom's basement, and watch Naruto....
      Lmao

    • @-haclong2366
      @-haclong2366 5 лет назад +1

      Yes.

    • @geth7112
      @geth7112 5 лет назад +3

      @@whiteasfuck7263 wait hold up your mom let you use the basement? Lucky

  • @thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888
    @thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888 4 года назад +3

    Basically, ninja had to be the most righteous people who dealt in the underworld

  • @FELONIOUSBOLUSS
    @FELONIOUSBOLUSS 5 лет назад +41

    Odd, this book pretty much says the ninja should be like a role model, a pillar of their community. I expected something...darker, and more focus on tactics and the work of ninja in general.

    • @strongback6550
      @strongback6550 5 лет назад +16

      It is words like these which justify the dark deeds done, for what is being sold to him is that these deeds serve a noble ideal and that he is not a man to be discarded at earliest convenience.
      Should he buy into these words, he would surely turn into a powerful tool for his patron. If he doesn't buy into these words, well, he has seen through the ruse and may serve the lord by other means presuming such need exists.

    • @malahamavet
      @malahamavet 5 лет назад +16

      What do you mean darker? They were spies. The text talks about choosing wisely who you are going to send on a secret mission so they can't betray you selling your information to the enemy. They talked about how they needed to be good on conversation and hard to deceive, to know hot to impersonate others so they blend in with the enemy environment, to be cultured and know the different customs of each region so they don't do suspicious stuff or talk like with a different dialect...
      The text did talk about war and the ninja's requirements. Most of the non violent requirements are very important because most of the time they would be among people and during the day.
      Of course if you expected them to be required to naruto run and kill people you got disappointed. 😂
      The text repeats in multiple occasions the importance of the ninja being loyal and do anything their Lord commands, and the fact that they said it would be good if they were noble so they couldn't change sides because their family and stuff, which it could happen if they just sent a random broke guy that doesn't have anything to lose if they changed sides.
      I don't know what more could you want, to me this text makes a lot of sense as a guide for feudal lords to choose their spies

    • @olddog6658
      @olddog6658 5 лет назад

      contract killers, pure n simple...

    • @StephenGillie
      @StephenGillie 5 лет назад +1

      "Ninja" just means "patient person". Have you been watching a lot of Ninja Scroll?

    • @olddog6658
      @olddog6658 5 лет назад

      @@StephenGillie Nope, spent 4 years in Tokyo, learned a lot about Bushido, and Nippon military ways. whatever their "good qualities" were they murdered for money......

  • @TohnoEn
    @TohnoEn 4 года назад +6

    The interesting thing is how actually killing people was only a very small part of the job of the shinobi, as far as we can tell.
    Most of their time was spent in gathering intel.

  • @cdev2117
    @cdev2117 5 лет назад +54

    007 is a Ninja?

    • @00Boogie
      @00Boogie 5 лет назад +19

      Yes, he is.

    • @Mirokuofnite
      @Mirokuofnite 5 лет назад +17

      You only live twice.

    • @malahamavet
      @malahamavet 5 лет назад +12

      Basically 😁
      If he lived on 17 century Japan they would consider him the pinnacle of ninja

    • @-haclong2366
      @-haclong2366 5 лет назад +13

      Ninja's typically are spies, so the comparison is not unusual.

    • @00Boogie
      @00Boogie 5 лет назад +14

      Honestly, the ideal ninja and the ideal British gentleman overlap near perfectly.

  • @polmak1507
    @polmak1507 5 лет назад

    Fantastic video, I adore this channel

  • @nicholasheimann4629
    @nicholasheimann4629 5 лет назад +24

    What a great video about me.

  • @kennethworsham5338
    @kennethworsham5338 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you.

  • @tzimisce1753
    @tzimisce1753 4 года назад +3

    3:42 No, Sun Tzu says ain't nobody got time fo' dat!

  • @BreathInSpaceFilmz
    @BreathInSpaceFilmz 5 лет назад +12

    Sounds like the perfect man to me.

  • @fractalcat3696
    @fractalcat3696 4 года назад +6

    And here I thought Nigahiga told me everything I needed to know about becoming a ninja...

    • @gigastrike2
      @gigastrike2 3 года назад

      It's a good primer. People who want to know more always need to go to Ask A Ninja.

  • @yuhisarhim
    @yuhisarhim 5 лет назад +2

    Very cool

  • @Kenzofeis
    @Kenzofeis 5 лет назад +4

    Versatility and adaptability, and to satisfy the employer, trustworthy and effective.
    Said with fewer words, and is really not so unique, is it ^^
    A special agent, well versed with weapons, concoctions and techniques available at the time, some would be a "trade secret", naturally.
    He would also have to be familiar with various possible attempts at defenses against him, like "singing stairs".

  • @TheKiroshi
    @TheKiroshi 5 лет назад +2

    This kind of flies in the face of the historical events, where most spies were of common decent, and lived as commons.. At least the parts of "Good upstanding birth" and all that stuff.

    • @alittlepuertoricanboy1993
      @alittlepuertoricanboy1993 5 лет назад +3

      It does not, actually. The book IS historical, it's written by a low level samurai from Iga province in 1676 whose family served as ninja for the Todo clan.
      Actual written material on ninjutsu were usually written in military strategy books for samurai in the Edo period, as a way to preserve war traditions in a time when war wasn't happening and the role of the warrior class was limited to national security and government. But even pre-1603 passages about ninja always talk about them as military units undergoing secret operations, i.e., they were samurai of some kind doing sneaky sneaky.

    • @TheKiroshi
      @TheKiroshi 5 лет назад

      @@alittlepuertoricanboy1993 - so not much of an agent really, just a samurai class sabatour?
      there are plenty other shinobi and spy texts that read as survivalist guide, people intergrated into communties to actively report info, and conflict with enemy plans.
      but shinobi as a military unit were pretty much a thing a few dozen times in total.
      Civil war and all, and its time period arent tooo accurate as long term text is.

  • @s.a.morris8625
    @s.a.morris8625 5 лет назад +3

    ...oh....liked this one a lot....thank you for posting...

  • @josh656
    @josh656 3 года назад

    This and the Samurai one are my favs.

  • @fedrofloris4527
    @fedrofloris4527 5 лет назад +18

    It would be lovely to se a representation of one of Plato's dialogues concerning love (Symposium), if possible with two voices in relation to the two characters of such dialogues. Thank you, and forgive my bad English.🌷

  • @MegaJani
    @MegaJani 4 года назад +3

    3:40
    *Sun tzu said that!*

  • @whydoesthismatter
    @whydoesthismatter 5 лет назад +1

    Nice dude

  • @nopkl7843
    @nopkl7843 2 года назад

    Reminds me of job application requirements.

  • @bczarrockbeast6264
    @bczarrockbeast6264 5 лет назад +2

    My my ... This is certainly an interesting area, I hadn't even thought about. More martial arts material would be appreciated.

    • @VoicesofthePast
      @VoicesofthePast  5 лет назад

      Absolutely

    • @jauntyangle5667
      @jauntyangle5667 4 года назад

      Aside from The Art of War book by Sun Tzu, you might enjoy The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi and Family Traditions on The Art of War by Yagyu Munenori. The latter two are available as one book which is translated by Thomas Cleary and is available from Shambhala Publications.

    • @bczarrockbeast6264
      @bczarrockbeast6264 4 года назад

      @@jauntyangle5667 thanks!

    • @jauntyangle5667
      @jauntyangle5667 4 года назад

      @@bczarrockbeast6264 Enjoy! (I found the last book to be the most insightful).

  • @chrisddonn
    @chrisddonn 4 года назад +1

    Imagine trying to demonstrate all that in the yearly appraisal.

  • @leekaien6415
    @leekaien6415 5 лет назад

    Beautiful.

  • @rikbanerjee7342
    @rikbanerjee7342 5 месяцев назад +1

    Loved it 💖 , but, I got confused between a ninja , a monk and a student _

  • @MARfilms
    @MARfilms 5 лет назад +25

    Smooth talking traps.

    • @VoicesofthePast
      @VoicesofthePast  5 лет назад +13

      Watch out for them

    • @dragoonTT
      @dragoonTT 5 лет назад +6

      Khajiit has wares if you have coin.

    • @-haclong2366
      @-haclong2366 5 лет назад +4

      He probably traveled to Siam.

    • @DoctorM42
      @DoctorM42 4 года назад

      Japan haven't changed much in that regard.
      Although I've heard Taiwan have even more smooth talking traps nowadays.

  • @rg-pq1kb
    @rg-pq1kb 4 года назад +11

    i'm a bit of an expert on the subject as i have the "american ninja" series on vhs and most of this info is bogus... the guy is forgetting important things like blowgun and throwing star skills

    • @369Æchilles
      @369Æchilles 4 года назад +3

      hahahaaaha yhnxa for making my day with your silly antics i need it in this shitfest pandemic 😃

    • @hard2getitrightagain314
      @hard2getitrightagain314 4 года назад +1

      I'm just happy to see "bogus" back in use. Naturally it'd take someone with a VHS collection of ninja tapes to do it!

    • @rg-pq1kb
      @rg-pq1kb 4 года назад +1

      @@hard2getitrightagain314 you'll be glad to know then i dont plan to bogart on an future claims of bogosity

    • @thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888
      @thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888 4 года назад

      I'm conflicted. I genuinely can't tell if you're joking or not

  • @BlueMoon-er6on
    @BlueMoon-er6on 5 лет назад

    Grateful

  • @InimitaPaul
    @InimitaPaul 5 лет назад +5

    Loyalty, courage, strategy, achievement and fidelity. I know more dogs with those traits than people!

    • @InimitaPaul
      @InimitaPaul 5 лет назад +2

      Thomas Paine Damn! For such an innocuous sentence, that was a serious over-reaction. Whatever’s going on in your life, I hope it gets resolved and you’re in a better place soon.

    • @carljohnson5446
      @carljohnson5446 5 лет назад +1

      Paul Keating
      >over-reaction
      You and your doggo obsessed people. I like pets too but there is such thing as over obsession you know and it’s cringe inducing.
      Sorry for using profanity it’s internet you know people do things sometimes.

    • @InimitaPaul
      @InimitaPaul 5 лет назад

      Thomas Paine For what it’s worth, I don’t have any pets, it was a simple expression of thought.
      I’ve done the same myself, hence the last part. We’ve all been there.

    • @xandercorp6175
      @xandercorp6175 4 года назад

      Just because a person doesn't aim those qualities at _you_, doesn't mean they don't have them.

  • @MaN2Mega
    @MaN2Mega 5 лет назад +2

    Description of a modern spy 👍

  • @zoesdada8923
    @zoesdada8923 5 лет назад +1

    This certainly doesn't sound like the Hollywood shinobi we've seen. Making a movie from this information would be easy.

  • @DevinDTV
    @DevinDTV 5 лет назад +3

    once it got to the part about being "proficient in all forms of art" i started to suspect it's a parable about how no one can be a good ninja or something lmao

  • @jacobedward2401
    @jacobedward2401 3 года назад

    What's a "reverse shinobi" ?
    A double agent?

  • @FMR------------------psst
    @FMR------------------psst 5 лет назад +4

    like Thomas Shelby

  • @TheJayman318
    @TheJayman318 5 лет назад

    Nice.. ❤

  • @Phelan666
    @Phelan666 4 года назад +1

    He must have four basic elements: Water. Earth. Fire. Air.

  • @17-MASY
    @17-MASY 4 года назад

    2:15 what is a "reversed shinobi"?

    • @kuntosjedebil
      @kuntosjedebil 4 года назад

      Ibonihs

    • @Lightice1
      @Lightice1 4 года назад +3

      A double agent; a spy who has been turned to spy on their own employer on the behalf of the enemy who they were originally supposed to spy on.

  • @nessmess500
    @nessmess500 4 года назад

    The music in this video is majestic! What's it called?

  • @lordemed1
    @lordemed1 4 года назад

    oK, i think I qualify. where do I go?

  • @neal520
    @neal520 5 лет назад +2

    YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @josephchapman9575
    @josephchapman9575 4 года назад

    Please do a knight one

  • @Chronomatrix
    @Chronomatrix 5 лет назад +2

    I think I may be a ninja...

    • @isaacolivecrona6114
      @isaacolivecrona6114 5 лет назад +1

      Gerdronex I know I am a ninja.

    • @RyanRyzzo
      @RyanRyzzo 5 лет назад

      @@isaacolivecrona6114 A real ninja doesn't even know he's a ninja

  • @aname6988
    @aname6988 5 лет назад +6

    How to write a Gary Sue: 1676 Edition

  • @scambroselauntrellus3681
    @scambroselauntrellus3681 5 лет назад +1

    Interesting how they advise veneration and knowledge of Chinese religion and history, I wonder what that means.

    • @deanasaurs
      @deanasaurs 5 лет назад

      Culture preceded knowledge

  • @Pedrosa2541
    @Pedrosa2541 5 лет назад +1

    I mean, where it teachs to use shurikens and infiltrate castles?

    • @matthiasthulman4058
      @matthiasthulman4058 5 лет назад

      Shuriken classes are normally on Saturdays.
      Castle infiltrations on Tuesdays.
      Castle exfiltrations on Thursdays.

    • @rb98769
      @rb98769 5 лет назад +1

      More typically they’d use peasant tools so that they wouldn’t blow their disguise.

  • @aylmerjohnson4906
    @aylmerjohnson4906 5 лет назад

    And say GET OVER HERE ----->

  • @louisxvii2137
    @louisxvii2137 5 лет назад +2

    Not until 四 did I realized the black bars were one, two, three in Japanese.
    一 one 1 I un/une unus
    二 two 2 II deux duos
    三 three 3 III trois tribus
    四 four 4 IV quatre quattuor
    五 five 5 V cinq quinque
    六 six 6 VI six sex
    七 seven 7 VII sept septem
    八 eight 8 VIII huit octo
    九 nine 9 IX neuf novem
    十 ten 10 X dix decem

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch 5 лет назад

    I get it, you don't want me.

  • @dontworryimjustaregularguy3181
    @dontworryimjustaregularguy3181 5 лет назад +17

    Is this teaching people how to be ninjas or is it teaching people to be model citizens?

    • @Xfire209
      @Xfire209 5 лет назад +4

      Ninjas. You want spies who are accustomed to the region/social circles that they have to infiltrate and you need them to be loyal otherwise they might change sides at the first opportune moment.

    • @miguelfernadez-palaciosser3675
      @miguelfernadez-palaciosser3675 5 лет назад +1

      You need a seemingly perfect man with a perfect life if you want to have a good spy and infiltrator. The shinobi have to appear as an extremely honourable and honest man, so he can use subterfuge apropiately

    • @morganrobinson8042
      @morganrobinson8042 4 года назад

      Would you want a less that perfect Ninja?

  • @IAmMrQ
    @IAmMrQ 2 года назад

    👍

  • @forbiddencrystalinternet6201
    @forbiddencrystalinternet6201 5 лет назад +3

    THE REAL ULTIMATE POWER!

  • @lolismlol
    @lolismlol 5 лет назад +2

    1. Hokage Dattebayo
    2. Sasukeeeee

  • @cherubin7th
    @cherubin7th 4 года назад +2

    So even in 17th century japan we got unrealistic job descriptions...

  • @shable1436
    @shable1436 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you from Ninja dating services.

  • @ricardomendez4041
    @ricardomendez4041 5 лет назад

    So basically Chris Farley from Beverly Hills Ninja

  • @PinoPinoles
    @PinoPinoles 4 года назад +1

    Girls: Omg I want to be a princess!
    Me and the boys:

  • @HeavyArmsJin
    @HeavyArmsJin 5 лет назад

    If that is the requirement of a ninja, you pretty much have to be a god to be a lord huh

    • @alittlepuertoricanboy1993
      @alittlepuertoricanboy1993 5 лет назад +1

      It's to ensure that your spy is loyal, good at his job, and doesn't turn against you.

    • @HeavyArmsJin
      @HeavyArmsJin 5 лет назад

      Well if I found someone like that I would serve under him as my lord instead haha

  • @Mirokuofnite
    @Mirokuofnite 5 лет назад +3

    Testimonial:
    Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
    And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    If you don't believe that ninjas have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
    Ninjas are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Ninjas are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love ninjas with all of my body (including my pee pee).

    • @aden1466
      @aden1466 5 лет назад +1

      your hilarious lol

  • @jcksnghst
    @jcksnghst 5 лет назад

    Did she find him?

  • @R.Merkhet
    @R.Merkhet Год назад

    There aren't enough hours in the day

  • @misterwibble6411
    @misterwibble6411 4 года назад

    Step 1. Buy some pyjamas
    Step 2. Dye them black
    Step 3.....😉

  • @MajesticOak
    @MajesticOak 3 года назад

    So Naruto is a documentary?

  • @cryptojack4933
    @cryptojack4933 4 года назад +1

    This is just one guys perspective folks don't get your panties in a bunch!

  • @aroma13
    @aroma13 5 лет назад +3

    I thought he was gonna say,,smooth talking tramps"

  • @Isleep-walking
    @Isleep-walking 5 лет назад +1

    I thought the actual ninjas were poor guys. Thats why they didn't have any fancy weapons and no armor. So they could not beat samurais in an open fight and that's why they would suprise them from some hiding place or something. Is my information wrong? Or is this after the original ninjas and things have changed?

    • @LordSoulSicarious
      @LordSoulSicarious 5 лет назад

      The idea of ninjas as assassin revolutionaries or criminals diametrically opposed to the samurai is a modern myth. Historically, they were basically spies in the service of their samurai lords. That said, the primary enemies of the samurai were other samurai, so a lot of their work involved spying on samurai and their servants (and yes, on rare occasions, assassinating them.)

    • @alittlepuertoricanboy1993
      @alittlepuertoricanboy1993 5 лет назад

      @D'lish Donut You're still wrong there. A mercenary is someone you temporarily hire for war that is outside the society, both by meaning and in practice. A daimyo using ninja would be using men that he retained full time, and since ninja were often samurai themselves, they would be part of the society that they are working for. Just because they are hypothetically from a different province doesn't make them mercenaries. Hiring samurai from different regions was the norm pre-1603.
      Also, accounts during the Sengoku period of Iga and Koka samurai in war, whether in secrecy or open warfare, have them involved in battles that are in neighboring provinces. So they still wouldn't have been working as mercenaries, they were involved in local, domestic disputes and were protecting their own homes.

    • @alittlepuertoricanboy1993
      @alittlepuertoricanboy1993 5 лет назад

      @D'lish Donut You're quoting from a first edition of Antony's Shoninki, first of all. I can just as easily say that Masazumi was expressing disapproval at the Iga and Koka because they were more like thieves pre-1603 than proper shinobi. Second, every proper Sengoku period text written about the Iga and Koka-shu in war was always about them either fighting in a local battle or in a nearby province, again, which doesn't make them mercenaries. Tamon-in no Niki is one of those texts. There's even a passage in it about Iga samurai sneaking into the building and burning it down.

    • @alittlepuertoricanboy1993
      @alittlepuertoricanboy1993 5 лет назад +2

      @D'lish Donut Yoshie didn't read the original texts either, she's reading transcriptions in more modern Japanese. And I know this for a fact because Antony himself told me that before. I've spoken to him several times a few years ago, I even have him on Skype. This was when the team was starting to churn out the ninjutsu manuals. He had a Facebook group that he used to be heavily involved with and would talk about samurai history and ninjutsu with anyone and everyone.
      You keep using Antony and his team as a primary source, which isn't in itself bad. The problem is that they are your only sources, where as I'm using not only Antony, but also Stephen Turnbull, Ikeda Hiroshi, Steven Nojiri, and several others as sources.

  • @sargondp69
    @sargondp69 5 лет назад +1

    Yep. I'm a Ninja.

  • @yeetyourboi6950
    @yeetyourboi6950 5 лет назад +2

    Did all of these things and now im better at fortnite

  • @dennisengelen2517
    @dennisengelen2517 4 года назад +1

    "He should be earnest to know the morals of the samurai class"
    So, they could respec to other classes aswell incase the ninja class gets nerfed?

  • @JohnDoe-id1es
    @JohnDoe-id1es 5 лет назад +1

    Confucius say-
    "Man go to bed witha itchy butt, wake up witha sticky uhfinger."

  • @kabirawan4229
    @kabirawan4229 5 лет назад +1

    Watch some people say : "hey those were Chinese characters, not japanese. You should correct that"
    All who say that are big dumb dumbs.

  • @ScottStratton
    @ScottStratton 5 лет назад

    Isn’t this about when they decided to outlaw gunpowder so no lowly peasant could take out these superhuman ninja and samurai?

  • @baxterrhodes7542
    @baxterrhodes7542 4 года назад +1

    Well first you need to lose that arm so you can have a literal toolbelt of tools attached to your fake arm replacement.

  • @johnjoiner8102
    @johnjoiner8102 5 лет назад

    God bless you dude.
    Some of your videos will get hit by the 4lg0rthim.
    Don't let that get you down.

  • @kingcotton659
    @kingcotton659 5 лет назад

    Ninjago

  • @ulightronx4259
    @ulightronx4259 5 лет назад

    Wait. Naruto is a Buddhist?

  • @bokurakyomoikiteru6130
    @bokurakyomoikiteru6130 4 года назад

    what about blood limit genes..you didnt mentioned it. XD

  • @danpollo4208
    @danpollo4208 5 лет назад +2

    How can one be a sage and have a wife and kids?

    • @whiteasfuck7263
      @whiteasfuck7263 5 лет назад +1

      By inserting there genitalia, into that of other genitalia, to produce offspring..

    • @danpollo4208
      @danpollo4208 5 лет назад

      @@whiteasfuck7263 good idea

  • @matthewsermons7247
    @matthewsermons7247 5 лет назад

    My philosophy on Life:
    Ninjas Gotta Practice

  • @Aurora2097
    @Aurora2097 4 года назад

    Dismisses almost all modern practicioners of Ninjutsu...

    • @nammap8169
      @nammap8169 4 года назад

      Ninjutsu is espionage. Real "modern practitioners of Ninjutsu" are either government agents or terrorists.

  • @erikseavey9445
    @erikseavey9445 2 года назад

    So kind of like a knight? Idk...

  • @Face2theScr33n
    @Face2theScr33n 5 лет назад

    Ninjas would have made great improv comics!

  • @kennykeating5243
    @kennykeating5243 5 лет назад

    Well, I ain't no ninja

  • @joeywilliam9889
    @joeywilliam9889 5 лет назад

    Israelites 🧐

  • @justintrotter4186
    @justintrotter4186 Год назад

    #LookingLikeJesus #TellSunOnSon #ThatsGoes4Everything #ThePrincipleThing #WisdomIs

  • @Ben_the_Ignorant
    @Ben_the_Ignorant 5 лет назад

    And he should know how to cook; I'm frying eggs and bread as I'm listening to this.