Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Vic Romano]

My female swordsdwarf has just been given a job.  Kill Bil.  Bil Dashedbutton the Swordsman.  I wish i had named her Beatrix.

Edit:

We are now standing atop a rainy hill, ready to do battle.  I'm gonna say that the *adamantine short sword* I have is as close to a Hattori Hanzo as I can get, so this should be interesting.

2nd Edit:

After a short swordfight, in which Bill was crippled, I punched him in the upper body until I hit an artery in his heart, and waited for him to die.  Only in dwarf fortress.

[SpiralDimentia]

Hattori Hanzo is like, historys greatest* ninja. I think you mean katana, but I don't know..

Editted because Hanzo was not the first, just the best.

[Xenxe]

Hattori Hanzo is like, historys greatest* ninja. I think you mean katana, but I don't know..

Editted because Hanzo was not the first, just the best.

you ever watched kill bill the Hanzo guy is the guy who makes the best swords in the world in the movie

[SpiralDimentia]

I've never seen it. But I do know that Hitori Hanzo [or something] was the world's greatest ninja. Even his death was super ninja like. He's pretty much my hero.

[Shima]

Hattori Masanari (Also known as Hanzou) was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's cavalry generals, a master of spear fighting.  A good scout and general overall, his spear was hung at Hanzomon, a gate dedicated to him after his death.

Although in this context, the Hattori Hanzou in question was just a swordsmith down in Okinawa, if I remember the movie correctly.  A good swordsmith, though.

[SpiralDimentia]

Hanzo Hattori was the leader of the Iga Ninja Clan in 16th Century Japan and is considered by many to be the most badass ninja to ever live.  His exploits have become the thing of legend in his native land, and all who study the arts of Ninjitsu and Kicking Ass look to Hanzo as the shining example of what it means to be totally fucking awesome.

Taken from
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hanzo.html

Also from that article;

Chiba even reprised the role for the movie Kill Bill, when his badass skills and Hanzo Steel were needed to help The Bride exact brutal revenge on her mortal enemy, and dismember an entire gang of wannabe Yakuza dumbasses in the process.

Hyuk hyuk.

[Hammerstar]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hattori Hanzō, also known as Hattori Masanari, was a famous samurai and ninja of the Sengoku era.

Hanzō was born as the son of Hattori Yasunaga, a minor samurai in the service of the Matsudaira (later Tokugawa) clan. He would later earn the nickname Oni no Hanzō (Devil Hanzō) because of the fearless tactics he displayed in his operations; this is to distinguish him from Watanabe Hanzo, who is nicknamed Yari no Hanzō (Spear Hanzō).

Though Hanzō was born and raised in Mikawa Province, he often returned to Iga Province, home of the Hattori family. He fought his first battle at the age of 16 (a night-time attack on Udo castle and went on to serve with distinction at the battles of Anegawa (1570) and Mikatagahara (1572). His most valuable contribution came in 1582 following Oda Nobunaga's death, when he led the future shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu to safety in Mikawa Province across Iga territory with the help of remnants of the local Iga ninja clans as well as their one-time rivals in Koga.

Hanzō was known as an expert tactician and a master of spear fighting. Various magical tricks such as disappearing and appearing elsewhere, psychokinesis and precognition were also attributed to him. Historical sources say he died in 1596 at the age of 55. According to a popular legend, the ninja Fūma Kotarō killed Hanzō in sea combat during their raid against the Tokugawa forces in the Inland Sea.

Hanzo of the movie isn't related to the historical Hanzō except by name. The historical version has been heavily distorted by legend, much like Honda Tadakatsu, who participated in over 60 battles during his lifetime, but was never wounded or defeated, and sparked a legend in his own lifetime that he was invincible.

[Yoink]

Lol. Ninjas were, more realistically, a bunch of paid thugs, using stealth and treachery to kill people for cash.
Woooooow. Like climbing in someone's toilet and stabbing them to death when they sit down is somehow badass.

[Hammerstar]

Lol. Ninjas were, more realistically, a bunch of paid thugs, using stealth and treachery to kill people for cash.
Woooooow. Like climbing in someone's toilet and stabbing them to death when they sit down is somehow badass.

Not exactly, because historically, there is not a single confirmed death by ninja. That's not to say it never could have happened. If they did the job right, say a little poison in the tea, and by the time the guy's dead the ninja is long gone, nobody even knew he was there.

Ninja clans were usually tied to a specific ruling clan, and used primarily as spies, to gather information on rivals, or battle plans and the like. Someone who could sneak in, steal or memorize a map of troop movements, and sneak back out would be usual case, especially considering the way samurai honor worked, assassination as a tactic would be greatly looked down upon.

Stories distorting the truth of events, plus modern media, have very much skewed the modern perceptions of ninjas away from what was the reality of them.

[Nasikabatrachus]

Here's an interview with an author of a historical book featuring ninjas:

http://monstertalk.skeptic.com/unmasking-the-ninja

[Tlc2011]

Hattori Masanari (Also known as Hanzou) was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's cavalry generals, a master of spear fighting.  A good scout and general overall, his spear was hung at Hanzomon, a gate dedicated to him after his death.

Although in this context, the Hattori Hanzou in question was just a swordsmith down in Okinawa, if I remember the movie correctly.  A good swordsmith, though.

And THAT is why i play Japan in Civ IV.

[SpiralDimentia]

That gate is dedicated to him because Ieyasu told him to defend that gate from any and everything. It's never been conquered and still stands to this day.