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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.
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 describe the story as "Lifelong Friends, with the Same Dreams, Striving to Grow into a Rising River".
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 ...
Hattori Hanzo's spear: Registered tangible cultural property of Shinjuku Ward. The temple has a spear that is said to have been bestowed by Ieyasu at Hamamatsu Castle to Hattori Hanzō, nicknamed "Spear Hanzō" due to his proficiency with spears, as a temple treasure. The spear was once about one and a half ken (about 2.6 meters), but is now ...
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.
Hanzō Hattori (服部 半蔵, Hattori Hanzō), or Shimo-no-Hanzō (下の半蔵, Shimo-no-Hanzō) A dedicated and talented young ninja who is head of the Hattori clan of Segachi. He is also called Shimo-no-Hanzō (下の半蔵, Shimo-no-Hanzō) to distinguish him from the two other people named "Hanzō Hattori" (including the historical Hanzō ...
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Hattori Masanari (服部 正就, 1565 – June 3, 1615) was the third Hattori Hanzō and a retainer under the Tokugawa clan during the late Sengoku period of Japanese history. He was the eldest son of the famous Hattori Hanzō. Masanari began to fight alongside his father by the mid 1590s, succeeding him in 1596 at age 31.