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  2. Path of the Assassin - Wikipedia

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    Unlike their previous collaborations on Lone Wolf and Cub and Samurai Executioner, this story focuses on two historical figures from 16th-century Japan. Path of the Assassin is the story of Hattori Hanzō, the master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu, who would grow up to become shōgun and unify Japan. The creators poetically ...

  3. Hattori Hanzō - Wikipedia

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    Hattori Hanzō (服部 半蔵, c. 1542 [1] – January 2, 1597) or Second Hanzō, nicknamed Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō), [2] was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a general, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan.

  4. Ninja - Wikipedia

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    Some former Iga clan members, including Hattori Hanzō, would later serve as Tokugawa's bodyguards. [26] Prior to the conquest of Kōka in 1574, the two confederacies worked in alliance together from at least 1487. Following the Battle of Okehazama in 1560, Tokugawa employed a group of eighty Kōga ninja, led by Tomo Sukesada.

  5. House of Ninjas - Wikipedia

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    The patriarch of the Tawara family of ninjas and a descendent of Hattori Hanzō. Since the death of his oldest son Gaku, he has since retired from ninja duties and relegated his life to running the family brewery as a normal civilian, not knowing that his remaining son, daughter, and wife have secretly continued using their abilities for missions.

  6. Ninpiden - Wikipedia

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    The Ninpiden (a.k.a. Shinobi Hiden, or Legends of Ninja Secrets) is an authentic ninjutsu manual written by Hattori Hanzō in 1560. [1] It is regarded as one of the three key historical texts of ninjutsu, along with the Shōninki and the Bansenshukai.

  7. Watanabe Moritsuna - Wikipedia

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    Watanabe Moritsuna (渡辺 守綱) (1542–1620) or Watanabe Hanzo, nicknamed Yari no Hanzō, was a Japanese samurai of the Watanabe clan, who served the Tokugawa clan. Born in Mikawa Province . He was also counted as member of the Tokugawa 16 divine generals ( Tokugawa jūrokushinshōjin ).

  8. Fūma Kotarō - Wikipedia

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    A popular but fictional story says that in 1596, Kotarō was responsible for the death of Hattori Hanzō, a famous ninja in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had tracked him down in the Inland Sea, but Kotarō has succeeded in luring him into a small channel, where a tide trapped the Tokugawa gunboats and his men then set fire to the channel ...

  9. Tail of the Moon - Wikipedia

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    Hanzou Hattori (服部 半蔵, Hattori Hanzou), or Kami-no-Hanzou (上の半蔵, Kami-no-Hanzou) A relative of Shimo-no-Hanzō Hattori, this Hanzou is the historical ( Hattori Hanzō ) and is from the Hattori clan of Okazaki in Upper Iga, hence his being referred to as Kami-no-Hanzō (上の半蔵 "Upper-(Iga)-Hanzō") to distinguish him from ...