This is from a ninja promotional video. That’s right, a ninja promotional video from a ninja tourist association. No, really.
The video below is from the Igaryu Ninja Tourism Promotion Council. The group has a website and really wants you to visit its museum in Iga, Japan. Ninja tourism!
I’ve been to Iga—I have family in Mie Prefecture. The area has certainly embraced the shinobi, because of the history Iga has as a real ninja stronghold and because, today, the ninja mythos now drives the local tourist industry—
even if it’snot always one hundred percent accurate.
https://kotaku.com/all-you-know-about-ninja-is-probably-wrong-5932403
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