title: Shoninki: The Secret Teachings of the Ninja: The 17th-Century Manual on the Art of Concealment
author: Master Natori Masazumi
description: MARTIAL ARTS / SPIRITUALITY <br /> <br />Shoninki <br /> The Secret Teachings of the Ninja <br /> <br />Experts in disguise, infiltration, espionage, and counterintelligence, the ninja had spiritual values and magical traditions that distinguished them from the soldierlike samurai. Their art of ninjutsu, invisible as well as indispensable, was transmitted in secret schools and relied on only a few books, which were written in code. <br /> <br />The <em>Shoninki</em>, one of the most important of these coded manuals, was written in 1681 by Master Ninja Natori Masazumi. Presenting all facets of the art of concealment, espionage, and physical prowess, including methods of disguise and survival techniques, this source text also contains teachings on spiritual meditations, psychic powers, the art of face reading, controlling the emotions, and magic spells. Revealing the connection between the ninja and the yamabushi--warrior monks who were endowed with supernatural powers--this classic text confirms the path of the ninja as an authentic spiritual discipline, one of self-realization and detachment and the way to mind-body harmony. <br /> <br />MASTER NINJA NATORI MASAZUMI directed the Kishu School of one of the most important ninja clans of the Edo period in Japan (1603-1868). <br /> <br />AXEL MAZUER is an archivist and librarian specializing in the paranormal. The coauthor of Les portes de Shamballah, he lives in France
zlib_text: THE MYSTIC ARTS 
  OF Tl iE 
  
  THE MYSTIC ARTS 
  OF THE 
  HYPNOTISM, INVISIBILIT\ AND WEAPONRY 
  STEPHEN K. HAYES 
  C 0 N T E M P 0 R A R Y 
  BOOKS, INC. 
  CHICAGO 
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 
  Hayes, Stephen K. 
  The mystic arts of the ninja. 
  Includes index. 
  1. Ninjutsu. 
  I. Title. 
  UB271 .J3H38 
  1985 
  355.5' 48 
  ISBN 0-8092-5343-7 
  Copyright © 1985 by Stephen K. Hayes. 
  All rights reserved 
  Published by Contemporary Books, Inc. 
  85-434 
  180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601 
  Manufactured in the United States of America 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-434 
  International Standard Book Number: 0-8092-5343-7 
  Published simultaneously in Canada by Beaverbooks, Ltd. 
  195 Allstate Parkway, Valleywood Business Park 
  Markham, Ontario L3R 4T8 Canada 
  
  CONTENTS 
  ACKNOWLEDGMENT;ix 
  1 
  REKISHI 
  HISTORY'S MESSAGE OF SIGNIFICANCE/1 
  2 
  FU NO KATA 
  FIGHTING LIKE THE WIND/4 
  3 
  NINJA ARUKI 
  THE STEALTHY TREAD OF THE NINJA/31 
  4 
  NIN GU 
  NINJA TOOLS/55 
  5 
  IN-