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Ninjitsu was a method employed by medieval assassins who were not of samurai birth.
Jujitsu was taught only to the samurai class.
What is often touted nowadays as ninjitsu often contains a mixture of karate (which wasn't introduced to Japan until 1923) and jujitsu techniques...
Real, modern ninjas are known as SAS, Delta Force, SEALS......
"Ninpo began as training to become a moral people
and to learn to endure in whatever social
condition one is in; to know and accept one's
fate, and to live for human beings and all other
creatures. The person who masters all of these
is a ninja."
By Masaaki Hatsumi
My mistake. I was relying on information provided to me by 9th and 10th dan martial arts teachers from both Japan and Okinawa.
I believe that jujutsu has mixed with ninjutsu and that the samurai and ninja categorizations overlapped
but surely there is some historical revisionism in the above quote? No martial art started for other than combative reasons until relatively recent times, I strongly suspect.
Perhaps you are correct then--the moral side of it developed for moral reasons, tautologically enough!
Still, I must say it seems like a somewhat rosy view to cast on the past--I must remain somewhat skeptical.
How old are the actual words ninpo and ninjutsu as used to refer to the philosopgy and the techniques, respectively?
What is often touted nowadays as ninjitsu often contains a mixture of karate (which wasn't introduced to Japan until 1923) and jujitsu techniques...