Cummins Antony, Minami Yoshie. Iga and Koka Ninja Skills. The Secret Shinobi Scrolls of Chikamatsu Shigenori

The History Press ., — 2013 . — 234 p . — ISBN: 978-0-7524-9732-7 Translated for the first time , the secret manuals of the oral tradition of the Iga and Koka Ninja , feared and respected across Japan for centuries"A retainer of our domain , Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori , each morning washed his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in front of the kamidana alter...His prayer was thus : ' Please afford me success in war .' He kept to this routine all through his life ."Through patient and scholarly detective work , Antony Cummins and the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team have unearthed a Shinobi treasure in Chikamatsu's lost scrolls . The 18th-century military historian , Chikamatsu , recorded the oral traditions of the Ninja and passed on those skills in lectures he gave at his Renpeido school of war in Owari domain during the early 1700 s . Chikamatsu wrote specifically about the Shinobi of Iga and Koka , regions from which warriors were hired all over the land in the days of war . The lost scrolls are filled with unknown Shinobi teachings , skills that include infiltration , assassination , explosives , magic , and commando tactics , and includes an in depth commentary on Sun Tzu's famous 13th chapter , " The Use of Spies ."