moyashi
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Matsuo Basho ... the famous haiku poet.
The frog near the pond, jumps, the water ripples.
Or something like that.
Here is something that most people don't know.
---- Basho was most probably a high level Ninja .
He was 46 when he traveld 2500km in 150 days on foot.
He traveled at times up to 50+km on foot. Anybody out of shape would find 20km difficult.
He also probably spent in todays terms US $30,000 on his travels. 30 ryo at that time. Ryo was an old form of money that equalled a certain amount of rice production. 1 bag of rice? Most Japanese didn't eat such a high quality of rice at that time.
He also entered the castel of DateHan (now the Sendai area) without a hassel an event that was normally reserved to High Officials of the Area, Bakafu (Tokugawa Government officers) and very famous people.
Besides being a supposed Ninja it's been proposed that he was in the employment of the Bakafu. It's too hard to imagine that a wealthy patron payed for his traveling expenses.
If his journey would never have happened, his poems and possibly the Japan that we all know today would be different. They say that this trip help scare DateHan into spending Billions of today's dollars on water works in Tokyo effectively putting the DateHan into deficit spending. They previous helped pay for the building of Tokyo Castel and later many temples of Hakone. (I believe that's where it was).
Ninjas existed in Japan and Hattori Hanzo was one of the most famous. Sure the movies exagerate their abilities but they were able to run up to 250km a day and other various physically difficult feats. Ninja have a special way of running that uses very little energy. Their swimming technique was a sort of threading water. Also their throwing technic uses the full shoulder in unison with the waist.
A high school trained in such ninja techniques and actually advanced to the top 8 of an all Japan tournament.
:box: ninjas
The frog near the pond, jumps, the water ripples.
Or something like that.
Here is something that most people don't know.
---- Basho was most probably a high level Ninja .
He was 46 when he traveld 2500km in 150 days on foot.
He traveled at times up to 50+km on foot. Anybody out of shape would find 20km difficult.
He also probably spent in todays terms US $30,000 on his travels. 30 ryo at that time. Ryo was an old form of money that equalled a certain amount of rice production. 1 bag of rice? Most Japanese didn't eat such a high quality of rice at that time.
He also entered the castel of DateHan (now the Sendai area) without a hassel an event that was normally reserved to High Officials of the Area, Bakafu (Tokugawa Government officers) and very famous people.
Besides being a supposed Ninja it's been proposed that he was in the employment of the Bakafu. It's too hard to imagine that a wealthy patron payed for his traveling expenses.
If his journey would never have happened, his poems and possibly the Japan that we all know today would be different. They say that this trip help scare DateHan into spending Billions of today's dollars on water works in Tokyo effectively putting the DateHan into deficit spending. They previous helped pay for the building of Tokyo Castel and later many temples of Hakone. (I believe that's where it was).
Ninjas existed in Japan and Hattori Hanzo was one of the most famous. Sure the movies exagerate their abilities but they were able to run up to 250km a day and other various physically difficult feats. Ninja have a special way of running that uses very little energy. Their swimming technique was a sort of threading water. Also their throwing technic uses the full shoulder in unison with the waist.
A high school trained in such ninja techniques and actually advanced to the top 8 of an all Japan tournament.
:box: ninjas