12 Moon on the Water After making an agreement with your lord, you should lure the enemy out with bait to infiltrate their defenses.
In this technique, you should lure the enemy with tempting bait, like fishing in the sea or a river, so as to make an enemy who will not normally come out in fact leave its defenses.
—Bansenshūkai, Yo-nin II 1
With an image straight out of a haiku, Bansenshūkai calls an open-disguise infiltration technique suigetsu no jutsu—the art of the “moon on the water.”2 While the technique had many uses, shinobi used it primarily to target heavily fortified enemy camps—the kind that restricted people from leaving, entering, or even approaching. Instead of penetrating the camp’s defenses by force, shinobi would lure out ...
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