Hattori Hanzou

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**Hattori Hanzō**  (服部 (はっとり)半蔵 (はんぞう), *****Hattori Hanzō*****? Hattori Hanzō) is a retainer of the Tokugawa Clan, serving under Tokugawa Ieyasu. She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 1, Sengoku Hime 2.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 1:**A vassal of the Tokugawa family.
A ninja who serves the Tokugawa family. He always covers his face with a mask, no one sees his face, and no one is extremely silent and hears his voice. A person with many mysteries.

徳川家に仕える忍者。常に顔を覆面で覆っておりその素顔をみたものはお
らず、極めて無口で声を聞いたものは入ない。謎の多い人物。
CV:杉原茉莉 原画:あまぎみちひと

**Sengoku Hime 2:** A vassal of the Tokugawa family. She is a ninja girl who serves the Tokugawa family. She always covers her face with a mask
She is said to have never seen her true face. Extremely silent
She is a mysterious person.

徳川家の家臣。徳川家に仕える忍者娘。常に顔を覆面で覆っ
ておりその素顔をみたものはいないと言われている。極めて無口
で謎の多い人物。

## Historial Infomation

Hattori Hanzō (半蔵 服部, c. 1542 – November 4, 1596) (not to be confused with Hattori Masanari or Hattori Masashige (服部 正成)) and nicknamed Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō), was a famous ninja of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a samurai, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan. He is often a subject of varied portrayal in modern popular culture. Hanzō was known as an expert tactician and a master of sword fighting.

Born the son of Hattori Hanzō Yasunaga (服部 半蔵(半三) 保長), a minor samurai in the service of the Matsudaira (later Tokugawa) clan. He would later earn the nickname Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō) because of the fearless tactics he displayed in his operations; this is to distinguish him from Watanabe Hanzo (Watanabe Moritsuna), who is nicknamed Yari no Hanzō (槍の半蔵, Spear Hanzō).
Though Hanzō was born in Mikawa Province (now Iga-chō, Okazaki, Aichi), he often returned to Iga Province, home of the Hattori family. At the age of 16, his first battle was a night time attack during the siege of Udo Castle (1557). At the time, he commanded seventy Iga ninja.
Service under Ieyasu
Hanzo had a great contribution to Tokugawa Ieyasu's rise to power, helping the future Shogun bring down the Imagawa clan. After Imagawa Ujizane had held Ieyasu's wife and son as hostages in 1561, Hanzo made a successful hostage rescue of Tokugawa's family at Kaminogo castle in 1562; and went on to lay siege to Kakegawa castle in 1569 against the Imagawa clan.
He served with distinction at the battles of Anegawa in 1570 and Mikatagahara in 1572. According to the Kansei Chōshū Shokafu, a genealogy of major samurai completed in 1812 by the Tokugawa shogunate, Hattori Hanzō rendered meritorious service during the Battle of Mikatagahara and became commander of an Iga unit consisting of one hundred fifty men. He captured a Takeda spy named Chikuan, and when Takeda's troops invaded Totomi, Hanzō counterattacked with only thirty warriors at the Tenryū River.
His most valuable contribution came in 1582 following Oda Nobunaga's death, when he led the future shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu to safety in Mikawa Province across Iga territory with the help of remnants of the local Iga-ryū ji-samurai clans as well as Kōga-ryū the neighboring local samurai families in the nearby Koka region. Hanzo was principal in serving as Ieyasu's guide and commanded 300 ninja guards to ensure his lord's safe passage to Mikawa.
In 1584, Hattori Hanzo continued to serve his lord at Battle of Komaki and Nagakute with 100 warriors under his command.
In 1590, Hattori Hanzo served during the Odawara campaign and was awarded 8,000 koku. By the time Ieyasu entered Kantō, he was awarded an additional 8,000 koku and had 30 yoriki and 200 public officials for his services. Ieyasu was said to have also begun to employ more Iga ninja with Hanzō as their leader.
Historical sources say he lived the last several years of his life as a monk under the name "Sainen" and built the temple Sainenji, which was named after him and mainly built to commemorate Tokugawa Ieyasu's elder son, Tokugawa Nobuyasu.
Nobuyasu was accused of treason and conspiracy by Oda Nobunaga and was then ordered to commit seppuku by his father, Ieyasu. Hanzo was called in to act as the official second to end Nobuyasu's suffering, but he refused to take the sword on the blood of his own lord. Ieyasu valued his loyalty after hearing of Hanzo's ordeal and said, "Even a demon can shed tears."
Death
He died at the age of 54 in 1596. There are two theories about his death. One asserts that he was assassinated by a rival ninja, the pirate Fuma Kotaro. After Hanzo tracked him down to the Inland Sea, Kotarō lured him and his men into a small channel and used oil to set the channel on fire. The second theory is that Hanzo became a monk in Edo where he lived out the rest of his days until he died of illness.

**Lord(s):** 徳川家康

**Father:**服部保長

**Mother:**

**Sibling(s):**女子(高山飛騨守室)
保元(次右衛門)
女子(上島左近茂保室))
女子(松本大学忠繁室)
保俊(市平)
保正(源兵衛)
勘十郎
久太夫(久左衛門)
正成(弥太郎)
正刻(半助)
女子(中根正重(正清)室)
女子(金田庄之助室)

**Spouse(s):**長坂信政女子

**Children:**正就(源左衛門)
正重(長吉)
正廣(郷八郎/出家)
？服部康成(長門守)

**Adopted Children:**