What's with all the not black?
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Permalink Reply by Jason Cross on
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actually "historically" ninjas wore alot more than just black all the time f your a student of the art of camouflage you'd know that wearing all black even on the darkest nights would render you quite visible to the human eye, in actuality alot of ninjas wore dark or midnight blue for night time "ninja ing" and white for winter time snow some were even reported of wearing all red. from a visual spectrum perspective it would be great night camouflage color seeing as the color red only carries color in the presence of light and if you were spotted in torch light it would be quite an intimidating sight to see a ninja swords drawn in all red, also it gives the effect of invulnerability because they wouldn't be able to see you bleed if you were injured.
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Permalink Reply by Gyßel von den Raben on
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Actually, according to Wikipedia, Ninja didn't wear all black.
"There is no evidence that historical ninja limited themselves to all-black suits. In modern times, camouflage based upon dark colors such as dark red and dark blue can be used to give better concealment at night. Some cloaks may have been reversible: dark colored on the outside for concealment during the night, and white colored on the inside for concealment in the snow. Some ninja may have worn the same armor or clothing as samurai or Japanese peasants.
The stereotypical ninja that continually wears easily identifiable black outfits (shinobi shozoku) comes from the Kabuki theater.[5] Prop handlers would dress in black and move props around on the stage. The audience would obviously see the prop handlers, but would pretend they were invisible. Building on that willing suspension of disbelief, ninja characters also came to be portrayed in the theater as wearing similar all-black suits. This either implied to the audience that the ninja were also invisible, or simply made the audience unable to tell a ninja character from many prop handlers until the ninja character distinguished himself from the other stagehands with a scripted attack or assassination.
Ninja boots (jika-tabi), like much of the rest of Japanese footwear from the time, have a split-toe design that improves gripping and wall/rope climbing. They are soft enough to be virtually silent. Ninja also attached special spikes to the bottoms of the boots called ashiko.
The actual head covering suggested by Sōke Masaaki Hatsumi (in his book The Way of the Ninja: Secret Techniques) utilizes what is referred to as sanjaku-tenugui, (three-foot cloths). It involves the tying of two three-foot cloths around the head in such a way as to make the mask flexible in configuration but securely bound. Some wear a long robe, most of the time dark blue (紺色 kon'iro) for stealth."
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Oh, a joke... I need to drink more coffee, because I'm obviously not awake yet.
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Permalink Reply by Roccia Nera on
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Dude, I totally feel for you... But it's ok. It just shows how much of a ninja you are. The other "colors" you see are actually forms of sub-black that only ninjas can see. Yeah.
-Roccia Nera
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Permalink Reply by Cloud Nerojin on -
Haha, I was thinking the same thing. Even the Ninja said that, on I believe it was the Ninja Poetry episode, Ninja write with black ink on black paper.
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Permalink Reply by VirtualInsanity on -
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