hi is my chin you know when we hear the
word ninja most of us probably picture
these sword wielding assassins whirring
all-black garb who are masters at
martial arts in the art of stealth war
maybe this guy we've read about these
black mask warriors and novels and comic
books and we've seen some fictionalized
versions of them in a lot of movies for
the past few decades and in many of
these materials we've learned that a
ninja is often a cloaked and mask the
man who can stealthily infiltrate an
enemy's territory to end the life of a
specific target but in reality not all
ninjas live in the shadows and the way
of the ninja is not alive solely
intended for well men these female
ninjas are referred to as the kunoichi
and a while they equalled their male
counterparts in terms of combats and
stealth skills they handled their
assignments differently from men in
several impressive ways but first let's
talk about the term ninja while the term
ninja is what became popular among
Westerners or written records in feudal
Japan referred to these coverts agents
and a mercenary assassins as the shinobi
members of the shinobi clans of Japan
were practitioners of ninjutsu which
taught them the strategy and tactics of
espionage and filtration sabotage
assassination and even guerrilla warfare
now medieval Japan was a time during
which men dominated society while women
were largely relegated to the sidelines
taking harmless roles such as that of a
wife a mistress wore a maid and many
people incorrectly assumed that ninja
clans were strictly composed of males
when the truth was women of that time
also worked as covert agents and
assassins alongside the men although
their approach in doing so is not
exactly the same the existence of female
ninja warriors is supported by the bonds
issue Chi a 17th century book containing
knowledge and secrets about ninja
training the bus's UK revealed the
primary functions of a kunoichi and that
is to infiltrate a targets household by
forming intimate relations with members
of that clan and gaining their trust
walking freely inside enemy territory
and hiding in plain sight they usually
bit their time and collect the
information about their target but they
were also capable of facilitating
assassinations if order to do so now the
shinobi knew the importance of using
personal strings to their deadly
advantage and in a world where women
were prized for their beauty and were
deemed ignorant and harmless the choroid
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suspicion and found it much easier to
get close to their targets compared to
their male counterparts the female men
just were also not above using their
feminine wills to accomplish their
objective and they were willing to
become concubines and mistresses if it
meant keeping their disguise for a long
time the targets of the shinobi were
typically powerful and influential
members of the samurai class which meant
that they were heavily guarded and were
naturally distrustful of men outside of
their clan however rarely were they
asked suspicious of the women around
them and so this allowed the kunoichi to
disguise themselves as maids courtesans
whereas priestesses and go undercover
infiltrating dangerous enemy zones on a
much deeper and intimate level than male
shinobi's would have ever been able to
achieve and here's the thing the
kunoichi did not sneak in
during moonless nice to steal
information or eliminate their targets
they were usually patient and took their
time in accomplishing their missions
even if it took months or even years and
the thing that's female ninjas rarely
attempted to kill their targets right
away first they worked hard to integrate
themselves well into the enemy's
household and to slowly earn the trust
of the households of many residents they
gathered intelligence and passed on
crucial information to a samurai's
enemies and when the time came to
eliminate the target they were
monitoring they did not wait for a male
shinobi to finish their job because
their combat skills were just as good
and sometimes their method of execution
was even more creative and brutal this
is why some argued that the kunoichi
posed a more serious threat than other
members of the shinobi hence it is not
too surprising that if they were ever
captured the kunoichi would suffer faced
way worse than a male ninja being female
ninjas their beauty and sexuality were
their primary weapons when gaining
access to their targets but they did
also wield actual deadly weapons of
their own considering that they had to
go about their enemy's territory I'll
notice they couldn't just you know stuff
a longsword in their kimonos instead
they carried weapons such as dagger like
hairpins sharee cos were folding fans
with hidden blades and poison as these
items can be inconspicuous while
worrying a
standard kimono but perhaps the most
iconic weapon of choice used by the
coronoid she was Danny Cote which kind
of looks like Wolverines claws and they
were made of leather finger seems to
topped with very pointed metal tips the
tiger like a cause of the weapon
extended between one and three inches in
length and they were sharp enough to
tear away human flesh some of the klonoa
tree would even douse their claws with
poison in one or two quick and death
were worse than the pain the thing is
there is very little record available
about the kunoichi and Mochizuki chiyomi
is probably the only one whose name was
solidified in japan's ninja history geo
may was a noblewoman from the 16th
century and the wife of a samurai
warlord she is credited for setting up
an underground network of female spies
which she accomplished by recruiting
around 300 female orphans war victims
and prostitutes to the eyes of the
locals of nazarova llege in the Shinshu
region the noblewoman was simply running
an orphanage but in reality she was
training and managing a very
sophisticated group of female espionage
operatives and assassins who have
infiltrated almost every aspect of the
region's community this group of female
ninjas have put their lives on the line
all in the service of the Takeda clan
which was led by the uncle of chioma's
late husband Takeda Shingen now for
reasons I'll know after the death of
Shingen in 1573 Chiyo may enter League
of spies just disappeared from Japan's
historical records and no one really
knows what happened to the secret group
after serving the Takeda clan but even
though we did not know the names of many
of the female ninjas they were a force
to be reckoned with in medieval Japan
you know as I was growing up my friends
they wanted to be the president they
wanted to be an astronaut I even came up
with a plan when I was a little kid to
run away to Japan and somehow
mysteriously run into a ninja clan no I
definitely romanticized that whole thing
because could I really kill somebody I
don't think so but I wanted to be a
ninja I think my inspiration came when
the ninjas were like so huge back then
you know when the movies like the
American ninja series surf ninja 3 ninja
3 ninja kickback like ninja this ninja
dad it was like ninja movies everywhere
you know back when Van Damme was
actually popular my man those were good
times
so yeah didn't end up running away
didn't end up becoming a ninja just
became a youtuber or did I
maybe I am a ninja disguised as a
youtuber I guess you never know but let
me know
how many of you out there wanted to
become a ninja and also what's your
favorite ninja movie all right guys
thank you all so much for watching this
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