This informative martial arts book, <i>Ninja Weapons</i> introduces the exciting and deadly secrets of ninjutsu—the chain and the <i>shuriken</i>.<br><br>The Masaki school of chain fighting was developed in the feudal society of the early eighteenth century by a swordsman-sentry in Edo (Tokyo) Castle. Feeling that the shedding of blood in such a hallowed place would be disgraceful, he devised the combat use of the weighted chain. Even the name he...