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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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Japanese Language and Literature |
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| Online Access: | http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/347 |
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