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 | | If so, then I am a direct descendent of Hahachi Honda, retainer to Lord Ieyasu Tokugawa who in 1601 defeated Mitsunari Ishida at the battle of Sekigahara to unify all of Japan. |
 | | Hahachi Honda was famous for his Tonbogiri spear (literally 'dragon-fly cutting spear') and the fact that he was never hurt in battle regardless of how perilous the situation was. |
 | | The name is derived from a story that Hahachi Honda was standing in the presence of Lord Ieyasu (the above named), Masanori -ushima (head of Ieyasu's Seven Spearmen), Mitsuhide and Hidemitsu Akechi, and a dragon-fly went to perch atop the spear, in doing so it was immediately cut in half. |
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