The Ninjas appear for the first time at the end of the Heian period, in the 12th century. These men formed a class
of combatants comparable with the Samurais.
At that time, some villages are pointed out by an ability with the combat out of commun run. Their origins are
Perhaps these populations were originating in China. Some of historians think that the Ninjas would come directly
from the last heir to the Qin dynasty, in 206 before our era.
Driven out of China, these populations would have settled in the south of Kyoto. It is there in the insulation of the
steep mountains of Iga, they would have founded the clan of Hattori in which the secrecies of ninja art were
transmitted from generation to generation.
From the end of the 16th century, the feudal wars are completed. The order being restored, nobody need more the
They turned then brigands and assassins. They were so frightening that in 1581, the area of Iga must be attacked
by the army.
They needed not less than 46,000 men to defeat approximately 4,000 Ninjas.
The Ninjas are then destroyed but they continue to feed the imaginary.