Last Saturday, my host brother, Takehiro, and I took a 2 hour train ride from Osaka to a small town on the other side of Japan. The town is called Mie Perfecture, and is one of 2 towns in Japan where Ninjustu, the art of ninja, was developed a couple-thousand years ago.
Because of the town's ninja roots, there is a park/museum devoted to preserving the history of the ninjas and Ninjutsu. Takehiro and I visited said museum, and it was a blast!
The Iga-Ryu Ninja Museum features a replica "ninja house" full of traps and secret passageways, several exhibits full of ninja-related artifacts, and a "ninja show" with demonstrations of various weapons that were actually used by ninjas in their heyday.
To learn more about the history of ninjas and about the museum itself, please visit the museum's website here:
http://iganinja.jp/en/
On to the pictures!
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| Taking the train to Mie. There is a lot of farmland and many rice fields between Osaka and Mie Perfecture. |
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| The park where the Iga-Ryu Ninja Museum is located. |
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| Inside the "ninja house". |
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| Demonstrating a secret passageway which is behind the cabinet in the picture. |
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| Ninja clothes and weapons. |
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| A katana.. |
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| Tekko-kagi (hand claw weapons) |
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| Shuriken! |
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| The Ninja Experience Ninja Show! |
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| Throwing shuriken. |
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| I would hate to be that piece of wood. |
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| If you can see it, there is a katana blade hidden inside the handle of this umbrella. |
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| Taking the train back to Osaka. Iga-Ryu was fantastic! |
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