Tezos

Hattori Hanzo (10/12)

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Description

Hattori Hanzo, perhaps by far the most fun character to draw and animate. Because his life story is full of myths, I'm more free to play with symbols that are purely aesthetic. In today's pop culture, Hanzo is known as the real-life ninja of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Try a random search for the name "Hattori Hanzo", you will surely find quite a number of articles with the title "Hattori Hanzo, The Real Ninja!". His ninja image has also inspired many Anime, Comics, and even Hollywood Movies. Starting from Ninja Hattori, Hanzo in the Naruto series, to Quentin Tarantino's Hanzo Kill Bill. So you can imagine how cool this guy would be if his career as a ninja was real. Unfortunately no. Hattori Hanzo was a loyal follower of Tokugawa Ieyasu even when Ieyasu was still Matsudaira Motoyasu, as a samurai. I repeat "as a SAMURAI". Hanzo is a genuine samurai since he was a kid. His father Hattori Yasunaga was a famous samurai. The Hattori clan is a samurai clan. So Hattori is a ninja clan is clearly just a myth. Hanzo might have been doing espionage or something, but that was common practice for samurai of the time. According to sources I believe the character "忍者" which is read as Ninja, can also be read as Shinobi, which means sneaking in short. Ok I'm definitely not the right source for this, considering that the only Japanese I know is "yamete, kudasai, sama kimochi" which I'm not even sure what it means. But this is a good starting point for us to dig deeper into this review. So in conclusion I really believe Hattori Hanzo is not a ninja. But I'm open to the possibility Ninja actually exists. But still Hattori Hanzo is not a ninja. Hmm, even though it's fun to draw him as a Ninja.

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samurai

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illustration