Was There Female Ninjas?
Can there be any female ninjas?
What is it?
A ninja or shinobi was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. They were a person who was skilled in ninjutsu. The shinobi proper, was a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries.
What benefits ninja?
~Superhuman or supernatural powers were often associated with the ninjas.
~Being remembered and being known.
~The title ninja has sometimes been attributed retrospectively to the semi-legendary 4th-century Prince Yamato Takeru.
What did ninjas do for training?
The skills required of a ninja has come to be known in modern times as ninjutsu, but it is unlikely they were previously named under a single discipline, but were rather distributed among a variety of covered espionage and survival skills.
Was there any female ninjas?
Yes, in fact there were female ninjas in medieval Japan!
Most Westerns think that ninjas as black-masked men with swords who appear from the shadows and strike without warning. But not all ninja assassins were male, and not all of them walked in the shadows. Female ninjas are known as kunoichi, formed an important part of medieval shinobi clans.