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While Researching this part of the site, I found that the history of the ninja is very mysterious. So much is not known due to the fact that most of the stories were past down through the generations through word of mouth. Anything written down was kept on ancient scrolls that were and still kept secret due to the fact that the information contained in them also listed recipes to poisonous drugs. Even in the books I read there was no definite confirmation of the year in which the ninja first emerged. 

  
What I have gathered from my research so far is that the emergence of the ninja took place during the Feudal Period of Japan. They lived in the mountainous regions of what is now Iga, and they were mostly an agricultural group of people. The oppression of this group of people by the Samurai warlords of the time led them learn martial arts in defense. Their unique use of the martial arts and the weapons they created from their farm tools has become the style of fighting known as Ninjutsu (ninpo) today. 

The Following are links to an essay written on the History of the ninja:

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