was an
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
Ninja
A or was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of a ninja included reconnaissance
In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enem ...
and the fourth Hattori Hanzō. His older brother was
Hattori Masanari
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, succe ...
and his younger brother was the monk
Hattori Masahiro
is a Japanese surname.
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. His wife was the daughter of
Ōkubo Nagayasu
was a Japanese samurai bureaucrat and ''daimyō'' of the Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging ...
.
He fought his first battle at 20 years old at the
Battle of Sekigahara
The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu prefecture, Japan, at the end of ...
and went on to fight in the
Siege of Osaka
The was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages (winter campaign and summer campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege ...
after his brothers death at Osaka he succeeded him and became leader of the Iga mono. He went on to serve the
Tokugawa after they secured the shogunate.
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Samurai
Ninja
1580 births
1652 deaths