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This is not what I understand sennin to be. I'm reading Braziller's Japanese Ghosts & Demons. They have a chapter devoted to them and link them with the Taoist hsien, or Eight Immortals - various mythical semi-dieties who had achieved a kind of enlightenment and immortality. Sennin is just the Japanese version of the Chinese word - it may have come to refer to some group of real people even ninjas but I Googled around and, other than this entry and its mirrors, they tend to support what I've read:

Gama is certainly one of these 8 Immortals (there are a shifting line up).

The only place I can find a reference to sennin as ninja is in Naruto:

http://www.narutoex.com/do_notdirect_link/rank.html

Also the only articles that link here are fictional.

So if anyone has any sources to confirm the information in the article then I'd appreciate it otherwsie it should just be merged with Eight Immortals. (Emperor 20:32, 5 August 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Yes, there seems to be a lot of original research from "sources" like this blog. I've put in some links and information as a first step toward deleting the unnecessary. What's next? Keahapana 02:46, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]