be compromised if the ninja failed in the other aspects of his deceptive ruse.
Considerable study of different social classes of people had to be made by ninja in order to effect their disguises, and so skillful did some of them become that they retained their false identities for years without being discovered. For example, if a ninja wished to operate in the disguise of a priest, it was necessary for him to become competent in performing the religious duties of the clergy.
As a master of deception the ninja was also competent in the use of camouflage to conceal his whereabouts. Both natural and man-made objects served to let him carry out his insidious activities without being seen. For example, the ninja arranged to disappear from sight by jumping into a hole in the ground that had been filled with the fine ashes of the paulownia tree (shinobi bai). From a distance the hole was invisible. Because of such deceptions many persons credited the ninja with supernatural powers.
NINJA IN THE FIELD
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