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In Japanese ninja anime, Koga Ninja Hoshi is arguably a must-see classic, and fans who have watched koga ninja and Naruto at the same time may have a comparison in their minds. Relatively speaking, Naruto is more of a manga for the group of teenagers, while Koga Ninja Ishi is more suitable for young people. There is not so much childishness in the adult world, and ninjas do not carry so much intolerance.
Therefore, in the anime work "Koga Ninja Dharma", the only ones between the enemy ninjas are ninjutsu, even if they are in love with Koga Tsuneyoshi and Illusion, as well as the male and female protagonists Koga Shinnosuke and Iga Shun, are fighting each other, and the other ninjas have no pity. So, how much hatred do koga ninjas and Iga ninjas have? How far does the content of anime and manga deviate from the reality of Japanese history? And listen to Maple Wood Jun.'
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the description of Koga and Iga ninjas in the Koga Ninja Dharma</h1>
In the "Koga Ninja Dharma", it does not specify why there is such a great hatred between the Koga ninja and the Iga ninja, but simply describes that the contradiction between the two families has been hundreds of years, the two sides have not dealt with each other, and the hatred between each other has become more and more intense, and the contradiction has become deeper and deeper.
The anime only says that the Iga ninja was attacked by the Koga ninja in the recent war with Oda Nobunaga, and the Koga Kei masa and the illusion that were originally a couple were misunderstood, or that the trust between the two sides was not so deep that they could not trust each other with their lives, so they suddenly continued this feud from the position of the ninja families of each other because of love and hatred. Anime is also in line with reality, the contradiction between many people, after a long time, it is not clear who provoked whom first, anyway, the two people just do not deal with.
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > historically real Koga ninjas and Iga ninjas</h1>
This anime is indeed taken from Japanese history, so fans look more engaged and obsessed with the struggle between ninjas. The Koga Ninjas and the Iga Ninjas were indeed two armed military groups that existed during the Sengoku period of Japan, and the two were quite close. Unlike what is depicted in the anime, in fact, the ninjas of the two families were related in the early days, and there was no such thing as the two families described in the anime who always killed each other all day long.
Because Koga and Iga are essentially armed mercenaries, the specific business is detective and killer, and under certain circumstances, they can participate in military combat as elite special forces. Their main purpose was to serve their employers for money, and they had no desire to compete for territory, and there was no need to cut down the grass and root out the enemy in the war of annexation between the Japanese daimyōs. It can be said that their profession is to fight and kill people for money, but their lives are not to lose their lives for meaningless battles.
Signage for Iga City, Mie Prefecture, Japan, and Koga City, Shiga Prefecture, known as the "Land of Ninjas"
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the difference between Koga ninja and Iga ninja</h1>
The Koga ninja congregation is an alliance community where all people are of equal status and basically vote according to the mainstream opinion when faced with major issues, while Iga is a hierarchical system, and all ninjas act according to the instructions of the leaders of the three Iga Shangnin families (Hattori, Hyakuchi, and Fujibayashi). Koga ninjas were completely attached to a daimyo for a period of time, relying on this daimyo bag to eat and wrap the net, belonging to the fixed contract worker, while the Iga ninja belonged to the freelancers who did not refuse to come, whoever gave money to work, even if the good friends of the same Iga ninja were hired by two rival daimyo at the same time and met on the battlefield, they would also fight with a high degree of professional ethics.
This is the same as in the anime, and it also explains why Koga Iga can turn his face and turn his face, when they represent the two different forces of Takechiyo and Kuni chiyo, they can fight like enemies until the final result appears, even if Koga and Iga have no hatred before, even if they have no relatives, they can fight for the difference of the team. This is the world of ninjas, the code of conduct of ninjas. At this point, anime is definitely not exaggerated.
In terms of ninjutsu, the historical Koga pays more attention to treatment and medicine, and Iga pays more attention to combat and concealment, of course, it also focuses on different aspects, not that Koga does not use ninjutsu to fight, and Iga will also be poisoned.
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the true feud between the Koga ninja and the Iga ninja</h1>
Did the Koga ninja and the Iga ninja have a vendetta in history? Feng Mujun believes that there must be a difference, after all, as a peer is a wrongdoer, and the two stores are so close to each other, maybe the two are not like the sworn enemies in the comic, but as a competitive relationship, there must be. Inevitably, there will be some conflicts, and the two families themselves are occupations that rely on force, so casualties are also possible.
Take the real history shown in the anime, Oda Nobunaga's crusade against Iga. Initially, Oda Nobunaga's son Oda Nobunaga, in order to show his ability, led his army to attack Iga, but was defeated by the ninjas led by Iga's Hyakuchi Santao. In fact, Iga is equivalent to a village, and Oda Nobuo's incompetence makes his father furious.
Yama kita's Illustrated Ninja Encyclopedia, an excellent work on japanese ninjas, interprets the real situation of Japanese ninjas from a historical perspective
Of course, it must be said that the ninjas' battles are different from the samurai armies of the Japanese Sengoku, they do not simply line up to fight each other, but use various means to carry out assassinations in hidden places, and use means such as setting traps, while harassing the morale of opponents, which is the most difficult place for regular troops to fight guerrillas. Enraged, Oda Nobunaga personally led a large army to conquer Iga, during which time, as mentioned above, the Koga ninjas had always attached themselves to a daimyo, and the master of Koga at this moment was the Oda family.
So in the process of conquest of Iga, the Koga ninja did help, if there is a vendetta, then in the anime and in real history, it is true that Koga and Iga are enemies.
In the ensuing Honnō-ji rebellion, Oda Nobunaga was betrayed by his subordinate Mitsuhide Andrei and hung up. The Oda family was torn apart, and tokugawa Ieyasu, the head of the Tokugawa family at the time, happened to be out of the base area, which was very dangerous, and under the protection of Iga's subordinates, Hattori Hanzo, successfully escaped back to his base camp, and Iga became the designated imperial ninja of the Tokugawa shogunate in the future. The positions of Koga and Iga are mutually exclusive, and it is inevitable that feelings of loss will arise and new contradictions will arise.
Ninja Museum in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Maple Jun's epilogue:</h1>
The life-and-death duel between Koga and Iga in the manga does not exist, and there may have been more cooperation between the two sides than there have been in the past. However, the plot set for the anime effect also allows fans to only see the life and death between the lovers who are truly in love, which may be the reason why "Koga Shinobi" can move fans more.
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