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When Antony Cummins asked me to write an gree in archaeology, Antony Cummis decided to
article for this magazine, I felt overwhelmed start a great deal of research to provide the figure of
by the task: the shinobi with a really historic entity, far from the
Where to start? myths, falsehoods or commercial interests.
I can only say as Bujutsu practitioner and lover For this reason, he created the Historical Ninjutsu
of the Shinobijutsu is that the task that Anthony Team, a team composed by Yoshie Minami, Mieko
has decided to face is very difficult, arduous and Koizumi and Jyuho Yamato. They began to trans-
at times thankless mission. But thanks to his work, late and to investigate in depth the classical ma-
many people like me are beginning to see a light nuals on Ninjutsu, like the Shoninki, the Shinobi
at the end of the tunnel that will take us to the true Hidden or the Bansenshukai, along with countless
essence of the way of the Shinobi. manuals and Japanese classical documents of war
Antony Cummins has become a character of maxi- as the Gunpo Joyosu, the Chronicle of Guerra Tai-
mum relevance in the world of ninjutsu in recent heiki, the Ogiden up to delve into the classic texts
years, thanks to a systematic work based on the Chinese as the art of war, the six secret teachings,
analysis of the historical source. He is respected by Ts´ao-lu Ching-luch just to name a few.
some and hated by others, but his work leaves no Through this systematic investigation and the fre-
one indifferent. quent travel of Cummins to Japan great myths and
With a degree in ancient history and a master’s de- “truths” about the ninjutsu are beginning to be in
evidence: the ninja assassin, the ninja versus samu-
rai as a counterculture, the ninja who is dressed in
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