6 Hours of Infiltration After waiting until the hour of Ox, the ninja realized that the guard had fallen asleep; everything was dead quiet, and the fire was out leaving all in darkness.
For a shinobi, it is essential to know the proper time. It always should be when the enemy is tired or has let their guard down.
—Yoshimori Hyakushu #5
When planning theft, espionage, sabotage, assassination, or other attacks, shinobi were not burdened by the spirit of good sportsmanship or fair play. To the contrary, they carefully considered the most “advisable times and advantageous positions”1 to strike. The Shoninki stresses the importance of waiting to infiltrate until a target is distracted, lethargic, likely to be hasty in judgment, drinking and carousing, ...
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