Virtual Tama Aqueduct Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #27 Saifuku-ji Temple

 

     Some say the Hattori Family was from Ika County, Omi Province; others say they came from Hattori Village, Ahai County, Iga Province.  Hattori Masuhiro founded Saifuku-ji Temple in 1584.  That means the family moved to Akatsutsumi Village, Ebara County, Musashi Province, before Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) moved to Edo in 1590. The family became subject to Ieyasu. Was the family subject to the Later Hojo Clan when the temple was founded?  Why was the family employed by Ieyasu?  Everything is mysterious.  There were some other Hattori Families and the most well-known was Hattori Masanari (1542-1597), the head of ninja under the Tokugawa Shogunate.   Masanari was buried in Sainen-ji Temple in Edo.

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