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Iga ninja伊賀忍者 伊賀物 伊賀流alternative words: Igamono, Iga mono, Igaryu, Iga ryu, Iga school keywords: ninja , school related topics: Ninja , Oda Nobunaga , Tokugawa Ieyasu , Edo shogunate , Hattori Hanzo related web sites: http://www.sphere.ad.jp/ninja/ explanation: Located between Kinki region which is the old Japanese political center and Nagoya region where all the seigniors of Japanese unification were born, Iga and Koga were an ideal place to recruit ninja because the inhabitants own the perfect accent of Kinki and solid foot proper to mountain folk. Just after the assassination of Nobunaga, Ieyasu successfully fled from the capture thanks to Iga ninja. For that reason, Iga became the privileged place of ninja recruitment for Edo shogunate. | |