Ninja, their famous activity secretly became a spy and a killer in the Japanese Sengoku era. So many stories of them have been dramatized, but we must not forget that ninjas really exist. Because the activity is a little secret, make their official record little stored and many of them lost in myth and legend. But do they really exist? Here are 10 history of legend ninja who ever existed all the time.
Hattori Hanzo
Hattori Hanzo is probably the most familiar ninja because there is a cartoon film "Ninja Hatori". He is a follower and minister in Tokugawa Ieyasu, and is Ieyasu's main force being the shogun and ruler of Japan.
Growing up in Inga, Hanzo was first found participating in a long battle in the 1570s. The most famous act of 1582, when Oda Nobunaga died after betraying one of his followers, Akechi Mitsuhide.
For the safety of Ieyasu as well as the safety of Mikawa province, Hanzo and his fellow ninja "Iga" took their former rivals, the Koga clan to escort Ieyasu to a safer place. There are also some sources who say that Hanzo helped save the captured Ieyasu family.
A master of spear-combat and tactics, Hanzo has faithfully served Tokugawa throughout his life. Under the Tokugawa leadership, the Iga ninja guarded the Tokugawa shogunate's palace at Edo's castle, eventually becoming a shogun's secret agent under the Oniwabanshū bastion.
After Hanzō's death in 1596, the successor found to have accepted Hanzo's earlier position was named "Hattori Hanzo," as well. A practice that became a tradition of Iga leaders and perpetuated as a myth that Hattori Hanzo is immortal.
Kato Danzo
Kato Danzo is a ninja who popularized the idea that ninjas have supernatural powers. Danzo is a conjurer and many people believe he is a sorcerer. His tricks like swallowing a bull in front of the crowd and also the instant flowers they throw (shuriken), even giving him the nickname Tobi Kato (Kato fly).
the researchers believe that he must be a master of hypnosis, although no one can verify it. One way Kato's reputation soared, he finally caught the attention of Uesugi Kenshin, who decided to test his ninja skills. Kenshin challenged Danzō to steal the precious Naginata (sword) from one of his followers, Naoe Kanetsugu.
Not only did Danzo manage to infiltrate the fortified fortress and also take Naginata's sword, but he also arrested a girl, the palace maid.
Kenshin who impressed on him and began to search for tau, took Danzo into his introgation, while Kenshin's interrogation of Danzō, suddenly Danzō no longer wanted by Kenshin, whether the conclusion of what Kenshin had in mind, whether Kanetsugu connive with Danzō or Kenshin had any suspicions others.
Danzo became a competitor of Kenshin and also Takeda Shingen. But patently, Danzō proved when Shingen suspected that he was a secret agent and ordered to kill him, in the end Danzo was beheaded in 1569.
Fuma Kotaro
The Fuma clan is a unique group of ninja among the other ninja, as it stands alone from the union of Iga and Koga in serving the Hojo clan in Odawara. Jonin Fuma Kotaro is the fifth leader of the clan and their most recognizable generation. At that time, Fuma was known as 200 rappas (bully battle) working as a robber, pirate, and thief in melayanin Hojo.
In 1580, Takeda Shigen's son Katsuyori attacked Hojo at Odawara fortress. All night, Kotaro and his men secretly infiltrated Takeda's camp and caused noises and also killed each other that night. In 1590, Hojo was defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Fuma was eventually excommunicated as a public garbage.
(though most likely this is not true) of the widespread public story that in 1596, Fuma Kotaro killed Hattori Hanzo but was later betrayed by the former Ninja Takeda Kosaka Jinnai, and finally Fuma Kotaro was beheaded on the orders of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603.
Momochi Sandayu
Ishikawa Goemon was allegedly a disciple of Momochi Sandayu before becoming Nukenin. Momochi Sandayu is one of the founders of Iga Ryu Ninjutsu, and is considered one of the three great ninja at that time Iga Jonin or among others Hattori Hanzo and also Fujibayashi Nagato.
The original name of Sandayu is Momchi Tanbe Yasumitsu, although some sources state that it is not true. Other sources claim that Sandayu and Fujibayashi Nagato are actually the same person. He is believed to have been killed in 1581, when Oda Nobunaga attacked Iga province in Tensho.
It is sad indeed when Sandayu has to protect three different houses at once, because the identification of the uninhabited in the house are the wives and also the family.It was difficult for him, he had to move to another house and use a different identity.
Ishikawa Goemon
Although Iga and Koga received Ishikawa Gaemon as one of them, born in 1558, Ishikawa Goemon was a criminal who stole from a wealthy nobleman and gave to the poor version of Robin Hood from Japan.
Although there is no valid data, according to legend and also the story of society, Goemon started from genin (Ninja intern) which Iga passed under the leadership of Sandayu Mochizuki before becoming Nukenin (runaway ninja and also village traitor).
He became the leader of a group of Kansai bandits and constantly robs the rich nobles and merchants who will be distributed the results of the loot to the oppressed peasants. He should have been caught after a failed assassination attempt on Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the public boiled him alive in 1594.
On the story of the community mentioned he was holding the son on his head while being boiled, although many are wondering whether his son survived or not.
