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Category Archives: Ninja (Japan)

Dié 諜 – “spy/reconnaissance scout”

The first really important Chinese character we need to investigate in the ancient Chinese arts of stealth is dié 諜. It is composed with the radical for “words” or “speech” and a right hand component for the foliage of a […]

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Yin Fa 隱法 to Ninpo 忍法 to Ninjutsu 忍術

The following is our hypothesis on the etymology of the Chinese characters used in describing the Far Eastern arts of stealth across history and territory.  The original, North Eastern Chinese Art of stealth was known as Yin Fa 隱法. From […]

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The Ye Bu Shou 夜不收 Mentioned in the Wu Bei Zhi 武備志

The Wu Bei Zhi 武備志 is one of the most significant of Chinese Military Treatises. In this voluminous work of the Ming period, we find the elite night forces of the Ye Bu Shou 夜不收 mentioned a total of eight […]

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