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Experiencing Ninjutsu (Ninja’s techniques) at the ninja’s native place – Koka Ninjutsu Yashiki

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Experiencing Ninjutsu (Ninja’s techniques) at the ninja’s native place – Koka Ninjutsu Yashiki

: Violet Qianyun Huang (China)
Eji Lee (Korea)
Seong Won Hur (Korea)
Chisato Ishihara (Japan)
Ryo Hagiwara (Japan)
Kazuhiro Uchida (Japan)

: Nov 28, 2010

We went to a place called “Koka Ninjutsu Yashiki” (Koka’s ninjutsu’s hometown). Koka was the hometown of the eponym famous ninja clan. From now on we’ll take our distance from our everyday life and train to become a real ninja.
In japan, there were 2 great ninja clans. One of them was in Shiga’s prefecture. We decided to go there and experience their lifestyle and try understand their way of thinking.

The arrival at the Koka Ninjutsu Yasiki. However on first sight it really looked like normal traditional houses.
The Ninjutsu Yasiki is a touristic spot, so they know how to entertain the visitors.
This is how traditional Japanese housings look like. Japanese call them "Engawa".
Ninja's houses have these particular kind of stairs. As one could expect from a Ninjutsu Yasiki...
These are documents containing the Ninja's wisdom. However, even us Japanese cannot get what is written on them...
He is the one who told us everything about Ninjas. He explained us that there is a huge difference between the image we have of Ninjas and what they really were. The real Ninja doesn't kill. He just melts into the commoners so that he wouldn't be found so easily and gathers information.
Various kinds of Shuriken (throwing knifes).
Various kinds of Shuriken (throwing knifes).
Ninjas used these to make the enemy run away.
Ninjas used this tool to cross lakes or ponds. They were really amazing.
A secret door that only the owner of the house knew.
The machinery to open the gate.
And the gate opened.
There is an underground passage that only the owner knew about.
This is how it looks inside of it.
You can hide in one of these 2 hidden staircases.
The second floor was surprisingly wide.
We took a group picture. The building and the scenery were quite good. We will come back to have fun again.