Ninjutsu FAQ

**shinbushi** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 2:04pm

Originally Posted by Sirc

Also, Taijutsu is literally translated out to "body art/form." So basically anybody can claim "Taijutsu" as a style as it's an art of the body. I think the Ninjer world should really stop, just because it sounds cool, doesn't mean it is. In fact it could be translated to "form arts."

Tai can be translated to "body, substance, object, reality, style, or form". And jutsu is translated as "art" or "means".

techniqually the Bujinkan art is currently called Budo taijutsu or the body movement of the martial way. Interestingly lately on the new rank certificated Soke has changed the tai kanji from 体
to 體術
Meaning, `the body', `substance', `object', `reality'
http://www.df.lth.se/cgi-bin/j-e/dos...on&IK=on&LI=on

**ojgsxr6** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 2:47pm

The only problem I could forsee with a Ninjitsu FAQ, is that it could make a better Ninja Fraud.

**BudoBuyu** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 2:49pm

Originally Posted by ojgsxr6

The only problem I could forsee with a Ninjitsu FAQ, is that it could make a better Ninja Fraud.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. It's nothing Bullshido can't do to bring them down.

**Cullion** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 2:54pm

I have a question for Koto, and this is a genuine one, not a smartass attempt to make fun of the Bujinkan :-

Now that you are also training in Kyokushin and Judo, what do you feel you get from Taijutsu that you can't get from the other two ?

**BudoBuyu** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 3:15pm

Originally Posted by Cullion

I have a question for Koto, and this is a genuine one, not a smartass attempt to make fun of the Bujinkan :-

Now that you are also training in Kyokushin and Judo, what do you feel you get from Taijutsu that you can't get from the other two ?

I'd honestly like to know this one also. I'm looking for a good BJJ or JJ place around my area, so I'll be very interested in what he has to say.

**Leper_Messiah** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 3:42pm

I have a question: Is there any historical evidence that modern ninjutsu is directly descended from ninjitsu of like the 1600's?

Or was it reconstructed from other Japanese MA for the modern day?

**I aint punchy!?** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 3:48pm

It would be nice to see some objective historical evidence for the existence of a martial system restricted to 'ninjas'.

***Plasma*** · Posted On: 11/07/2005 4:14pm

Originally Posted by I aint punchy!?

It would be nice to see some objective historical evidence for the existence of a martial system restricted to 'ninjas'.

That going to the point of the FAQ.

If you refering to Ninjas as Iga no mono (men of Iga) then yes there are, Momochi Clan arts like Gyokko Ryu and Koto Ryu are Ryu-Ha restricted to the Iga no Mono. However, if you mean Ninjas as a group a stealthy assassins, blah blah blah. Then no becuase Ninjutsu in that context in a subsystem of many schools of Japanese arts.

This is going to be addressed in the FAQ.