The Fiction of the Ninja

The claim that the legendary thief Ishikawa Goemon attempted to assassinate the warlord Oda Nobunaga by dripping poison down a thread into the latter’s mouth is a staple of English-language histories of the so-called ‘ninja.’ Despite its widespread circulation in popular histories of Japan, there i...

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Main Author: Robert Tuck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2025-04-01
Series:Japanese Language and Literature
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Online Access:http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/347
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