Contents -- Foreword -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- A Short Biography of Natori Sanjūrō Masatake -- The Kishu-ryu Ninjutsu School -- Before You Read the Text -- PART ONE The Preface to the Shoninki -- Summary of the Tradition -- The Types of Shinobi -- Understanding What is Required to Follow the True Path of the Shinobi -- PART TWO The Shoninki Opening Chapters -- The Equipment and Outfits for Shinobi Activities -- Walking Along Unfamiliar Mountain Paths -- Walking at Night -- Infiltrating a Forbidden Mansion -- Learning from Foxes and Wolves -- Learning from Cattle and Horses -- Gathering Information at Shrines and Temples -- Changing Your Appearance -- Hints for Infiltrating an Enemy's Position -- Learning from Waterfowl -- Appropriate Times to "Creep In" -- Lessons from the Four-legged Animals -- Two-man Shinobi Teams -- Three-man Shinobi Teams -- PART THREE The Shoninki Middle Chapters -- How to Utilize the Environment -- How to Get Over a High Place and Get in Through a Low Barrier -- Changing Your Approach to the Shinobi Ways -- Defending Yourself Against the Enemy -- Charms and Secret Rituals That Protect You from Being Targeted by the Enemy's Agents -- Sheltering Under Trees -- The Art of Camouflage -- How to Make People Tell You What They Think -- Reading Someone's Character by His Face -- The Th ree Areas of the Whole Body -- PART FOUR The Shoninki Final Chapters -- Secret Philosophies of the Ninja -- How to Get Into Other People's Minds -- How to Avoid Defeating Other People -- Reading People's Personality -- Knowing the Difference Between Reason and Cleverness -- Controlling Your Mind and Managing Your Reason -- Impromptu Ways of Speaking -- The Way of Departing from Ninjutsu -- Inscription -- "Defense Against a Ninja" -- Bibliography.