Hattori Hanzō

he was born in 3rd Nov 1541, 1542 or 1543. – January 2, 1597}} or ''Second Hanzō'', nicknamed , was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era. He served the Tokugawa clan as a general and is credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, later helping him to become the ruler of united Japan.

Hanzō was known as an expert tactician and a master of sword fighting, and was included in cultural sobriquet as one of Tokugawa's 16 divine generals (''Tokugawa jūrokushinshō'').

He became known as the ''Second Hanzō''. He would later earn the nickname because of his formidable tactics; this moniker also distinguished him from Watanabe Hanzō (Watanabe Moritsuna), who is nicknamed . Provided by Wikipedia