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忍者は、今・・・What about ninja today?
先にも書いた通り、忍者は目立ってはいけない。
しかし、歌舞伎、映画、テレビドラマ、アニメなどエンターテイメントの
世界では、カッコいいアクションヒーローのような姿や「忍者らしさ」を
大げさに表現した作品も多いため、本来の「忍者」とは大きくかけはな
れた忍者像が定着してしまっているようだ。
Ninja figured prominently in Japanese folklore and legend, and the
shinobi traditions become a topic of popular imagination and mystery. Kabuki, TV and movies have long depicted these stealth warriors in a fantastically exaggerated manner, and as a result it is often difficult to separate historical fact from fiction. Despite many popular stories regarding Japan’s famed mercenaries, very little historical accounts regarding the ninja remain.
戦国時代、日本の人口の8%〜10%が武士だった。その100分の一にも満たないくらい希少な存在が忍者だった。
しかし、70年代〜80年代にかけての世界的な「忍者」ブームにより、数々の忍術学校が開かれ、当時の忍者よりも
多くの「現代の忍者」が生まれたというのも、興味深い事実である。「忍者」については、書き残された資料の数が
少なく、今なお、その活動や実態は謎に包まれている。これも、世界の人々が「忍者」に惹き付けられる大きな理由
なのだろう。
If you consider that even at their peak, just 8% to 10% of Japan’s population was of samurai class, then the numbers of ninja would have been about .01%! Very, very few indeed. However, thanks to the world-wide ninja boom and subsequent opening of many dojos, or “schools” of the art in the late 70’s and 80’s, there are now more people claiming to be practitioners of Ninjutsu, than there ever were real ninja!
【Japan World Ninja Links】
Book:Ninja, The Invisible Assassins
Places:The Iga Ueno Ninja Museum
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