Is Ninjutsu a martial art with no good reputation?
Ninjutsu does still exist, but it cannot exactly be practiced openly. It never has been an art that could be practiced and trained publicly, for obvious reasons. You open a school that openly teaches all those skills today and the FBI and ATF will be parked on your periphery in no time. What many people fail to understand is that many of the more famous schools of modern arts STARTED as Ninjutsu clans. The Fujibayashi of Jujutsu fame were famous as ninja adepts long before they switched to the less dubious art title. Izumi-ryu Kempo comes directly from Ninja dakentaijutsu, and is only one generation removed from Takamatsu Toshitsugu (the last publicly accepted ninja grandmaster), who named the current GM of the kempo art). Ninjutsu has many sub-specializations, to include Jutaijutsu (Jujutsu), dakentaijutsu (Kempo) and many, many weapons specialties, even the use of firearms (teppojutsu). Traditionally, each family had TWO appointed head-masters at the same time, which is the source of
