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Today,"Ninja"s are well known in all over the world. By the way,
actually, who are they? In old days,when Japan had been separated
in many countries, the professional spies, who stole secrets of
enemies, were Ninjas. We are going to introduce ,what Ninjas had
really been , that only few people know.

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but in the case of considering about the roles of ninja in Japanese history, they cant
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be considered without referring to actual documents about ninjas.
Encyclopedie Ninja(fr) From such a point of view, I am going to tell about the real actions of ninjas who
have substantial records.

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 New Entry Who was " Hattori, Hanzo ( ) "?
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I guess you have heard the name " Hattori Hanzo ( ) ". He was one of the
time
most famous ninjas and his name is often used in fictional works, especially in
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comics and games. In fiction in many cases, his roll is the boss of ninja groups.
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Actually in Japanese history, he was the head of Iga ()-ninjas. However " Hattori
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Hanzo " didnt necessarily indicate only one person. Hattori Hanzo was the name
Cafes succeeded to the family that led the group of Iga ninjas.
Ninja on the Kite We are going to look at each Hattori Hanzo chronologically.

Ninja Kanji Character Hattori Hanzo " Yasunaga () "

Various Font of As explained in another article, it can be thought that the roots of the Hattori-family
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documents about the Hattori-family as the leader of Iga-Ninjas appeared, it was the
age of Hattori Hanzo " Yasunaga () ". In the Middle age Muromachi-period (
1333-1573), originally Iga ninjas led by Yasunaga obeyed the Ashikaga-Shoguns
(). When the Ashikaga-Shoguns went down, Yasunaga and his fellows
abandoned the Ashikaga-family and found their new lords, the Matsudaira-family (
). One of the descendants of the Matsudaira-family is Tokugawa Ieyasu (
) who would hold the Edo-Shogunate () in 1603. Yasunaga left from Iga (
) to Mikawa () with his 200 ninja-fellows which was the headquarters of the
Matsudaira-family. Right there, Yasunaga and the 200 ninjas worked for the
Matsudaira-family conducting espionage and becoming the watchmen of their castle
contacting and exchanging information with native Iga ninjas.

Hattori, Hanzo " Masanari () "

Masanari () was the most famous "Hattori Hanzo" whom people usually imagine
as "Hattori Hanzo". It is very ironic that Masanari was hard to define as a ninja in
spite of being the most well known ninja in the world. Masanari was the fifth son of

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 Yasunaga. Masanari was born and brought up in
Mikawa. In short, Masanari had not been
educated as a ninja in Iga but nevertheless he
was the boss of Iga ninjas. Masanari was a
military commander rather than a ninja. He
joined and distinguished himself in war for
Tokugawa Ieyasu and many times attended Hattori Hanzo Masanari
Samurais and his fellow ninjas but Masanari
often used guerrilla tactics when he made
castles surrender. In this case, it was a ninja
style.
Above all, the biggest achievement of Masanari
was " helping Ieyasu pass through Iga ". In
1582, the greatest Daimyo " Oda Nobunaga (
) " had defeated almost all Daimyos in
Japan, and then, Nobunaga had nearly achieved
the unification of all Japan. At that time, Ieyasu The actual spear used by Masanari
was in Sakai () with no less than 40 of his
subordinates by order of Nobunaga. Then, one
of the biggest historical incidents happened. On
that occasion, Nobunaga stayed in the temple
named Honnoji () with only 50 of his
soldiers. All of a sudden, " Akechi, Mitsuhide (
) ", who was a military commander of
Nobunaga, raided Nobunaga with his 13,000
subordinates. It is said that Nobunaga set fire to
the temple and killed himself. After that, the
body of Nobunaga could not be found. This
incident is "Honnoji-no-Hen () " . The grave of Masanari in Tokyo
Herewith, the Daimyos who had surrendered to
Nobunaga came back to their lives and a brief peace ended. Especially around Kyoto,
the fire of war returned. Then, Ieyasu had to go back to his hometown Mikawa to
rebuild as soon as possible but in order to do that, Ieyasu needed to go through Iga

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 which was in chaos. The one who helped Ieyasu was Masanari. As Masanari utilized
his connection and property, he collected 200 Iga-ninjas and 100 Koga-ninjas. They
passed through Iga protecting Ieyasu and arrived at Mikawa. The march of the men
traveled for 200 km in only 5 days. At last, after that, Ieyasu could govern the whole
of Japan, it can be said that the establishment of the Edo-Shogunate () owes
itself to Masanari. Later, Masanari received a reward from Ieyasu that was almost
enough to be able to be a Daimyo (). When Ieyasu set up his residence in Edo
(), that is Tokyo () today, Masanari and some of his ninja-fellows could get
important jobs watching Edo-castle ().
It can be said that Masanari was the luckiest ninja and was exceptional too.
The grave of Masanari is located in a certain temple in Tokyo. Among all ninjas in
Japanese history, Masanari is the one and only ninja whose date of birth and death
and grave location are definitely known to people.
However the fate of the Hattori-family was not so peaceful. The son of Masanari who
had taken over the Hattori-family estate was a really stupid and rude guy. His name
was Hattori Hanzo Masanari ( ). As Masanari brought about a lot of
incidents, many properties and members that had belonged to the Hattori-family
were lost. At last, descendants of the Hattori-family fell to become mediocre low
level samurais who could not even use ninjutsu () any more.

Voir aussi
Ninja of Legend Fuma Kotaro
The Ninja from Fiction Sarutobi Sasuke
The Thief Ninja Ishikawa Goemon

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