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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-31-2011, 09:17 PM
zuludelta
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Here is something interesting about the 39th version of Storm Shadow. It says in his Filecard that he wears Samurai Desert Armor to fight Snake Eyes. Since when does a Ninja wear Samurai armor?
I wouldn't put too much stock in the PoC/RoC filecards. They're -- to put it bluntly -- garbage for the most part, probably written by some schlub in marketing who can't wait to do "real work."
As for ninjas wearing samurai armour... well, the historical ninja (and not the "pop culture ninja") allegedly used whatever was available, which I imagine would include appropriating samurai weapons and clothing. But here's the thing about ninja in history... there's very little reliable historical fact regarding ninja and ninjutsu. A lot of the stuff we assume is "true" or at least having some basis in historical fact can only be traced reliably to the claims of one man, Fujita Seiko, who died in 1966. Seiko claimed direct lineage to the Kōga-ryū school of espionage and he taught various espionage and martial arts techniques to Japanese intelligence agents at the infamous Nakano Spy School in World War II. But Seiko had no heirs, and didn't teach any of his students enough for him to think them worthy to carry on the Kōga tradition. He said that real ninjutsu (that is, ninjutsu that has direct ties to
koryu
ninjutsu) would die with him. Somewhat unsurprisingly, after Seiko's death, all sorts of "ninja masters" claiming to be heirs to the Koga or Iga ninjutsu tradition starting coming out of the woodwork.
Now, I'm not saying that all modern ninjutsu schools are run by frauds (although a lot of them are of dubious reputability), but the oldest ninjutsu school is actually only a little over 30 years old (Masaaki Hatsumi's Bujinkan school, founded in 1978). Hatsumi and others claim that they're descended from the Koga or the Iga koryu schools (the two largest ninjutsu schools in medieval Japan) and thus like to say that their schools date back four or more centuries, but to date, I don't think any one of them has shown indisputable proof of their lineage.
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