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Path of the Assassin (半蔵の門 Hanzō no Mon) is a gekiga manga created by the writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima and published in Weekly Gendai magazine (Kodansha). Unlike their previous collaborations on Lone Wolf and Cub and Samurai Executioner this story focuses on two historical figures from 16th-century Japan.Path of the Assassin is the story of Hattori Hanzō the master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu who would grow up to become shogun and unify Japan.