thinking out of the box,
when asked to make a essay on Ninjas, after a visit to the Ninja Museum of Igaryu, the student decided to do it in a way
that would reflect her passion for everything ninja, plus, the teacher said he
would reward students for creativity, so she had extra motivation to come up
with something that would make her assignment stand out, Her essay was so
ingenious that it left even her teacher scratching his head for a while, why? Because
Eimi Haga wrote the easy in true ninja style, using invisible Ninja ink!
“When the
professor said in class that he would give a high mark for creativity, I
decided that I would make my essay stand out from others,” Eimi
recently told Japanese reporters. “I gave a thought for a while, and hit
upon the idea of aburidashi.” Aburidashi is a traditional Japanese technique
used for exchanging secret correspondence in the past. The young student, who
had become fascinated with ninjas ever since watching an anime series as a
child, spent days researching the technique and then hours soaking and crushing
soybeans to make the invisible ink, the 19-year-old soaked soybeans overnight,
crushed them and squeezed an extract out of them through a cloth. She then
mixed the extract with water, spending several hours to get the concentration
just right, and then used a fine brush to paint her essay on a Japanese “washi”
paper. When she handed in the blank sheet of paper, even her ninja history
teacher was surprised, “I had seen such reports written in code, but never seen
one done in aburidashi,” Prof. Yuji Yamada said. “To be honest, I had a little
doubt that the words would come out clearly. But when I actually heated the
paper over the gas stove in my house, the words appeared very clearly and I
thought ‘Well done!'” Yamada didn’t even read the whole essay, opting instead
to leave part of the paper unheated to show the media the before-and-after
effect, but gave Eimi top marks for her creativity, just as he had promised, that was just what the 19-year-old had been hoping he would do, as she herself
admitted that the essay was nothing special, now that really is thinking out of the box! photographs BBC.
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