忍者

Reading

Kana: にんじゃ
Romaji: ninja
Kana
Romaji

Definition

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ninja (persons in feudal Japan who used ninjutsu for the purposes of espionage, assassination, sabotage, etc.)

See also: 忍術

Kanji

Readings: ニン、 しの.ぶ、 しの.ばせる
Meanings: endure, bear, put up with, conceal, secrete, spy, sneak
Readings: シャ、 もの
Meanings: someone, person

Example Sentences

忍者(にんじゃ)ごっこをしよう。
➥Let's make believe we are ninja.
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『カムイの(けん)』は、1868(ねん)徳川(とくがわ)将軍(しょうぐん)時代(じだい)崩壊(ほうかい)と、明治天皇下(めいじてんのうか)での日本(にっぽん)復興(ふっこう)という変革期(へんかくき)舞台(ぶたい)にした、一種(いっしゅ)(さむらい)/忍者(にんじゃ)物語(ものがたり)だ。
➥Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.
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