#290: Everything You Know About Ninjas is Wrong

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Antony Cummins, and we talk about his book "True Path of the Ninja." Today on the show, Antony uncovers the biggest myths we have in the West about ninjas -- like the fact that there isn’t really a ninjutsu fighting system, nor were samurai the ninjas' sworn enemy -- and then gives the real history of these ancient warriors. Antony then shares what lessons actual ninjas can teach us folks living in the modern West about psychology and interacting with others in business and life. The bad news is that we're going to ruin your childhood conceptions about ninjas in this podcast, but the good news is that the real story of ninjas is even more fascinating.

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0:00.0	["Malina's Podcasts Theme Song"]
0:15.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Malina's Podcast.
0:18.8	So when you hear the word ninjas, what do you imagine?
0:21.4	Put it in masked men and black garbs stealthily running across child roofs?
0:25.6	Ninja stars?
0:26.6	How about renegade warriors engaging in a special hand-to-hand combat system
0:30.2	against their sworn enemy, the samurai?
0:32.2	If that's what you think when you think of ninjas,
0:34.2	I'm afraid my guests stay on the podcast,
0:36.2	as here to tell you, it's all completely wrong.
0:39.2	Well, most of it's completely wrong.
0:41.0	His name is Anthony Cummins.
0:42.2	He has spent his career researching and translating feudal Japanese texts
0:45.8	on samurai and ninjas.
0:47.4	His latest book is the true path of the ninja.
0:49.8	It's a translation of a 17th century text called the Shinnoniki,
0:53.4	a field manual for would-be ninjas.
0:55.6	Today on the show, Anthony uncovers the biggest myths we have in the West about ninjas,
1:00.0	like the fact there isn't really a ninjitsu fighting system
1:03.6	nor were samurai the ninjas sworn enemy.
1:06.4	And then he gives the real history of these ancient warriors.
1:09.0	Anthony then shares what lessons actual ninjas can teach us folks living in the
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