Most Shinobi exponents understand and agree that the military treatise commonly called The Art of War serve as the original inspiration for the founding of Ninjutsu. The ancient Chinese influenced all aspects of Japanese culture in almost very area from architecture to Zen. Chinese military strategy, particularly as reflected in the treatises known as the Seven Military Classics, was routinely followed by Samurai warlords and their generals throughout Japan's centuries of internal strife. Of those treatises, scholars, researchers, and practitioners concur that the Sunzi Pingfa was the best regarded, and its tenets the most practiced. This book reveals how-and why it became the inspiration for the subsequent strategies and tactics of the Ninja.