| I'm not a martial arts expert but I hang around a lot of people who are. Your idea of ninjas being soley assassins is probably just exactly what the ruling class(samurai ) in japan would have wanted you to remember ninjas as.
The character "nin" in japanese simply means to persevere. Ninjas were more focused on survival then they were bushido and that is why they were written in history as being shameless assassins.
There were samurai families who were or became ninjas and being a ninja did not mean that you couldn't be or "act" like a samurai.
And so because of this there are many techniques in ninjutsu that come from originally samurai martial arts. |