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The Best Ninja Uniforms Since 2009
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The Best Ninja Uniforms Since 2009
Seventeen years making one thing teaches you a lot about it. This is Kage Ninja Gear's field notes — the real history behind the ninja, the truth about their weapons and tactics, and the occasional guide to wearing an authentic 14oz uniform the way it's meant to be worn. New guides go up as we write them.
Every September I get some version of the same email. Someone has found a ninja costume for twenty-five dollars and a ninja uniform for seventy, and the photos look close enough that they want to know what they’d actually be…
Seventeen years of making ninja uniforms means seventeen years of answering one question at conventions, in emails, and once, memorably, from a customs officer: “Did ninjas really wear that?” Short answer: not exactly. Longer answer: the truth is more interesting…
Which ninja weapons were used historically by ninjas and which of them are a product of modern fiction? Let’s look at some popular ninjutsu weapons and find out! Shuriken (Throwing Star) The throwing star of movie legend! The shuriken is…
When most people think of ninjas and their weapons they imagine katanas, throwing stars, and poison needles. While The elusive ninjas did utilize all those weapons and more, one of the most powerful weapons in their arsenal is often the…
One of the reasons that our culture and historians have had such a fascination with ninjas was the unique range of weapons that they chose to utilize. The humble origins of the first ninjas forced them to engage in a…
One of the few things that popular culture has correct about the elusive ninjas as the fact that they often employed smoke bombs as a diversionary tactic. Today let’s dive into how these smoke bombs were made and the various…
While not exactly superhumans, Ninjas were definitely one of the best trained military and espionage groups in history! A ninja needed to walk, move, hide and open doors silently in order to achieve their goals. Nin-jutsu, the art of the…
Ninjas, also known as Shinobi, were an incredibly effective fighting force based in the feudal era of Japan’s history. There were many factors that gave these ninjas an advantage over their enemies. Unique training regimens, lack of adherence to the…
A Japanese lord passes through life thinking he knows the people around him, until the night his faithful vassal ambushes him and takes his life without warning. How long he’d lived, unaware that his enemies were targeting him with yo-jutsu:…