For that reason, a ninja ate a lot of black food like black sesames, unpolished rice, chinese quinces and black soybeans. Ninjas also liked to eat quail's eggs. This was a kind of word game. This was a technique for hiding behind something without making any sound like a quail.
It is said that if a man eats quail's eggs he will be good at any skill. It may be kind of a joke, but it is certain that a quail's egg is so nourished. Basically, the food of a ninja was very similar to that of common people in the same period.
Usually, their staple food was unpolished rice, millet, barnyard, yam, radishes, dried plums, pine fruits, and so on. A ninja ate millet porridge as his main dish and his side dishes were such kinds of foods. Since ninjas were spies, their diet was tailored to their missions. For ninjas, everything about eating was a discipline for their missions.
For example, a ninja avoided eating anything that caused bad breath before their duties, like chinese chives, leeks or garlic. Where ninjas lived, deer and wild boars lived and were able to be hunted, they rarely ate them because they believed that the meat of wild animals made their senses dulled. Anyway, the most important thing for a ninja was to keep control over themselves and their habits. There certainly exists soil that man can eat.
They were careful to not build Square shoulders or not the pelvis stick out, as they were careful about their diet. They had balanced diet eating tofu , miso , dried plum, and vegetables. Suzuki" some rights reserved. When Ninjas sneaked into somewhere, they were afraid that enemy get aware of them by smell, therefore, they habitually avoided eating foods with strong smell such as garlic, green onion, chive and meat. Ninjas had weight restriction, and were not allowed to weigh over one straw rice-bag, which is about 60 kilograms.
They habitually trained to lift a straw rice-bag with thumb and index finger, to gain strength to cling to ceilings. Ninjas tried to build body that is hard to grow fat. Also, to avoid being detected when sneaking or hiding, they avoided foods that might lead to body odor. However, they did not avoid these foods completely, but seem to have eaten some foods for strength as well. There are portable foods from this time such as dried rice, but there were also portable foods particular to the ninja.
When ninja wrote secret letters, they used special characters that only they could read in order to make the letters unreadable to others. One explanation holds that these characters were used even prior to the bringing of Chinese characters to Japan, and they appear squiggly like a snake.
Ninja clothing was made to be light and prevent the wearer from being noticed. Black ninja clothing is often seen in movies, but there was actually no jet-black clothing. Jet-black would cause the form to stand out in the light of the moon, so a dark navy blue dying method was usually used. This navy blue dye fulfilled a function of being a sort of viper pattern, much like the rattlesnake-like pattern in the color of jeans.
Doing so increases the oxygen ingested, and helps a person to focus and run without thinking of other things. Further, it is important to look far ahead when running. This is to keep the chin down. When the chin goes up, breathing is said to be disturbed. Why not try either of these in a marathon race? Here are some of them: Fire escape - using fires and explosives flaming arrows, embedded fires, firecrackers to confuse the enemy Water escape - hiding oneself in water Smoke escape - explode a smoke bomb to make a smokescreen Metal escape - Using thrown stones or shuriken to escape Stealth - hiding in grass hiding in tree leaves , hiding in shadows Kannon kakure , pretending to be a stone uzura-kakure , others.
Shuriken ninja star The shuriken, a representative ninja weapon, includes both flat and cylindrical varieties. Blow darts Using these to shoot from the cracks of doors, etc. Needles Besides using these for sewing fabric, ninja also heated needles in fire and floated them on water to magnetize them, or used them as weapons such as darts, and even used them for medical self-treatment.
Main food eaten Millet, whole-grain rice, wheat, other grains, potatoes Mushrooms, mulberries, oleaster, chestnuts, sweet chestnuts, nutmeg, and pine nuts.
Quail eggs Food carried during travel There are portable foods from this time such as dried rice, but there were also portable foods particular to the ninja. When the sake had dried, the mixture was balled in about the size of a peach pit and ready for use. Ninja must weigh 60kg or less! Ninja were geniuses of camouflage! Tools used by the ninja The most famous of the ninja weapons is the shuriken ninja star , but ninja are said not to have carried it so often. Escape running this part was corrected last time Because ninjutsu is not a martial art, fighting against an enemy is a last resort, and the shuriken ninja star weapon was one method of that self-defense.
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