I want to be a ninja am i the only one

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Angilion said:
The cliched "ninja suit" is actually the clothing worn by stage hands in Japanese theatres a couple of centuries after the period of time in which ninjas were active.

It's not as silly as it sounds. The style of theatre at that time required stage hands to do some work on stage during the play. They dressed in black with their faces covered to make it easier for the audience to ignore them - a consistent uniform that emphasised that they were not part of the play. A director who was putting on a play which featured a ninja realised that this custom provided him with an ideal way to portray a dramatically unexpected attack by the ninja character - dress the actor playing a ninja as a stage hand and the audience would completely ignore him.

In reality, ninjas wore whatever was best suited to not being noticed in the circumstances they expected to encounter. An old peasant walking slowly back home under the weight of a bundle of sticks they'd collected from the nearby woodland for firewood could walk past guards during the daytime, which might be a better plan than trying to sneak over the walls at night, when any movement would be attract attention from guards. A bundle of sticks can be used to conceal a weapon and a fit, strong young person can look and move like a somewhat frail old person with some skill in makeup and acting. If it resulted in rumours that a ninja became invisible and flew over the walls, then all the better. Ninjas loved rumours about their supernatural powers - it was a powerful psychological weapon.
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