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Originally Posted by Draven  Actually the Lin Kuei, are mention in Arts of the Ninja, some old generalized book on Ninjitsu/ninjutsu. As I recall, Lin (means forrest) and Kuei (means demon or spirit). The Lin Kuei were a link between the Tengu myth of the ninja in Japan.
I'm not sure on details but a group of Chinese bandits/assassins called the "forrest demons" who were alledgedly ran out of China to Japan. And who allegedly became known as the Tengu in Japan and taught some of there methods to the peasants creating Japanese ninja. Not sure what they base this on.
Doesn't explain the Bujutsu link to the art, which most scholars link to Chinese philosophy and tactics.
It's like the story of the first jujitsu practicer, was studying medicine in China and brought back Jujitsu to Japan. The thing with Japanese history is thats its extremely subjective and been written and rewritten many times. Plus the Japanese have a habit of "adding age" to anything of value to make it seem more important then it was. |
ive never seen any mention of lin kuei in ninjutsu history besides that of the Mythical Ashida Kim psuedo ninja-lore
the Tengu demons yes, im familiar with that from Saito-ryu ninjitsu. but Tengu have nothing to do with Lin kuei.
every country has subjective History...the same can be said of China who has also re-written and covered up some of thier origins concerning martial arts.
how did you come to the conclusion that the first jujitsu practicioner brought ....jujitsu and medicine to Japan from China?