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{{Dialogue|Guard 1|The locals fell behind on their taxes. Now what was theirs is ours.|Guard 2|Serves them right for calling us the Sanzoku Ippa. Thieves indeed!|Two guards discussing the group's nickname|Assassin's Creed: Shadows|The Bad Sleep Well}} | {{Dialogue|Guard 1|The locals fell behind on their taxes. Now what was theirs is ours.|Guard 2|Serves them right for calling us the Sanzoku Ippa. Thieves indeed!|Two guards discussing the group's nickname.|Assassin's Creed: Shadows|The Bad Sleep Well}} | ||
{{Faction infobox | {{Faction infobox | ||
|name= | |name= | ||
|image= | |image= | ||
|founder=[[Kimura Yukari]] | |founder=[[Kimura Yukari]] | ||
|headquarters=[[Iwaya Castle]] | |headquarters=[[Iwaya Castle]] | ||
|locations=[[Awaji]], [[Japan]] | |||
|parent=[[Japanese Rite of the Templar Order|Japanese Templars]] | |||
|predecessor=''[[Saisesha]]'' | |predecessor=''[[Saisesha]]'' | ||
|active=early 1580s | |active=early 1580s {{c|collapsed}} | ||
}} | |||
The '''''Sanzoku Ippa''''' (山賊一派, lit. "[[bandit]] group") was the {{Wiki|Endonym and exonym|exonym}} given to a short-lived [[Japan]]ese brigand collective<ref name="The Bad Sleep Well">''[[Assassin's Creed: Shadows]] – [[Claws of Awaji]]'' – [[The Bad Sleep Well]]</ref> led by the [[Japanese Rite of the Templar Order|Japanese Templar]] [[Kimura Yukari]]<ref name="Database Yukari">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Kimura Yukari]]</ref> that regularly harassed and extorted [[civilian]]s on [[Awaji]].<ref name="The Bad Sleep Well"/> | The '''''Sanzoku Ippa''''' (山賊一派, lit. "[[bandit]] group") was the {{Wiki|Endonym and exonym|exonym}} given to a short-lived [[Japan]]ese brigand collective<ref name="The Bad Sleep Well">''[[Assassin's Creed: Shadows]] – [[Claws of Awaji]]'' – [[The Bad Sleep Well]]</ref> led by the [[Japanese Rite of the Templar Order|Japanese Templar]] [[Kimura Yukari]]<ref name="Database Yukari">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Kimura Yukari]]</ref> that regularly harassed and extorted [[civilian]]s on [[Awaji]].<ref name="The Bad Sleep Well"/> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The Sanzoku Ippa as a concept began in 1582, when the Japanese Templar [[Kimura Kei]] entrusted his surviving daughter Yukari with training the ''[[Saisesha]]'', | The ''Sanzoku Ippa'' as a concept began in 1582, when the Japanese Templar [[Kimura Kei]] entrusted his surviving daughter Yukari with training the ''[[Saisesha]]'', an army of loyal ''[[rōnin]]'' which he intended to use in a coup against [[Nuno Caro]] and [[Duarte de Melo]], his [[Templars|Templar]] benefactors. Kei disagreed with Caro and de Melo's plans to influence Japanese politics as a means of controlling the masses, and felt that the Templars' [[New World Order|cause]] would be better carried out by himself. While Yukari showed prowess and ambition in training the regiment, one of Kei's subordinates tasked with covertly observing her warned him that she may have other plans with the ''Saisesha'' beneath her veneer of familial loyalty.<ref name="Fighting for the Cause">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows'' – [[Fighting for the Cause]]</ref> | ||
After [[Oda Nobunaga]]'s retainer [[Yasuke]] slew Kei<ref name="Fighting for the Cause"/> for his affiliation with de Melo,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows'' – [[The Path He Walks]]</ref> Yukari fled to Awaji,<ref name="Database Yukari"/> where she courted its governing ''[[daimyō]]'' before usurping control when he was called away.<ref name="The Reunion">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[The Reunion]]</ref> Thereafter, she began assembling her group to exploit the island's residents for her own ends,<ref name="Database Yukari"/> using her experience in training Kei's army to ensure a strict chain of command was followed. Positioning herself at the group's head, she commanded the bandits through a ''[[wikt:大将|taishō]]'' (大将, lit. "general") triumvirate comprised of her aggrieved bodyguard [[Imagawa Tomeji]] as her enforcer,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Imagawa Tomeji]]</ref> the disguise adept [[Yasuhira]] as her spymaster,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Yasuhira]]</ref> and [[Nowaki]], | After [[Oda Nobunaga]]'s retainer [[Yasuke]] slew Kei<ref name="Fighting for the Cause"/> for his affiliation with de Melo,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows'' – [[The Path He Walks]]</ref> Yukari fled to Awaji,<ref name="Database Yukari"/> where she courted its governing ''[[daimyō]]'' before usurping control when he was called away.<ref name="The Reunion">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[The Reunion]]</ref> Thereafter, she began assembling her group to exploit the island's residents for her own ends,<ref name="Database Yukari"/> using her experience in training Kei's army to ensure a strict chain of command was followed. Positioning herself at the group's head, she commanded the bandits through a ''[[wikt:大将|taishō]]'' (大将, lit. "general") triumvirate comprised of her aggrieved bodyguard [[Imagawa Tomeji]] as her enforcer,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Imagawa Tomeji]]</ref> the disguise adept [[Yasuhira]] as her spymaster,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Yasuhira]]</ref> and [[Nowaki]], an orphan she raised to be a fanatically-loyal ambusher.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Nowaki]]</ref> | ||
When she heard rumors that a stranger had visited the island to find and hide the [[Imperial Regalia of Japan|Imperial Regalia]]'s legendary [[sword]] ''{{Wiki|Kusanagi no Tsurugi}}'', Yukari captured the interloper and learned her quarry was the [[Japanese Brotherhood of Assassins|Kakushiba ''ikki'']] member [[Fujibayashi Tsuyu]]. Believing that recovering the sword would help her climb higher in the Templar ranks, Yukari kept Tsuyu imprisoned for years, repeatedly [[Interrogation|interrogating]]<ref name="Database Yukari"/> and torturing her for the sword's location.<ref name=" | When she heard rumors that a stranger had visited the island to find and hide the [[Imperial Regalia of Japan|Imperial Regalia]]'s legendary [[sword]] ''{{Wiki|Kusanagi no Tsurugi}}'', Yukari captured the interloper and learned her quarry was the [[Japanese Brotherhood of Assassins|Kakushiba ''ikki'']] member [[Fujibayashi Tsuyu]]. Believing that recovering the sword would help her climb higher in the Templar ranks, Yukari kept Tsuyu imprisoned for years, repeatedly [[Interrogation|interrogating]]<ref name="Database Yukari"/> and torturing her for the sword's location, to no avail.<ref name="Database Tsuyu">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Database: Fujibayashi Tsuyu]]</ref> | ||
In 1585, the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Hattori Hanzō]] found a lead on Tsuyu's possible location through a puppet play that was touring [[Izumi Settsu]], and had his contact [[Konatsu]] forward the information to Tsuyu's daughter [[Fujibayashi Naoe|Naoe]],<ref name="The Puppet Show>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[The Puppet Show]]</ref> fulfilling an earlier promise he had made to her.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows'' – [[The Meaning of the Blade]]</ref> Naoe promptly sailed to Awaji and learned that the ''Sanzoku Ippa'' were keeping Tsuyu locked up in [[Sumoto Castle]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[A Shinobi on Awaji]]</ref> However, in her eagerness to find her mother, she failed to consider that Yukari had intentionally "leaked" the information to bait her in a trap, hoping to blackmail Tsuyu into revealing the sword's hiding place by threatening her daughter's life.<ref name="The Reunion"/> | |||
When Naoe did not return, Konatsu contacted Yasuke, who likewise sailed over<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Not Alone in this World]]</ref> and proved instrumental in freeing the Fujibayashi women from captivity.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Prison Break (Shadows)|Prison Break]]</ref> With more help from Hanzō and Konatsu, and supplemented by Tsuyu's knowledge of the island and its people, Naoe and Yasuke worked together to kill Yukari's ''taishō'',<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[A Garrison to Dismantle]]</ref><ref name="A Snake in the Shrine">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[A Snake in the Shrine]]</ref><ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Turning the Tables (Shadows)|Turning the Tables]]</ref> eliminate the bandits' assorted captains,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Dismantling One by One]]</ref> incapacitate the majority of her forces with a strong sedative,<ref name="The Bad Sleep Well"/> and sabotage the weapons stocks of those left unaffected,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Silencing the Teppo]]</ref> before confronting and killing Yukari herself.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[The Final Assault]]</ref> Despite the group's leadership being eliminated, it did not sway the remaining pockets of members, who wandered the land and persisted in threatening the locals until Naoe and Yasuke tracked them down and killed them, finally eradicating the group.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[All That We Leave Behind]]</ref> | When Naoe did not return, Konatsu contacted Yasuke, who likewise sailed over<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Not Alone in this World]]</ref> and proved instrumental in freeing the Fujibayashi women from captivity.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Prison Break (Shadows)|Prison Break]]</ref> With more help from Hanzō and Konatsu, and supplemented by Tsuyu's knowledge of the island and its people, Naoe and Yasuke worked together to kill Yukari's ''taishō'',<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[A Garrison to Dismantle]]</ref><ref name="A Snake in the Shrine">''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[A Snake in the Shrine]]</ref><ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Turning the Tables (Shadows)|Turning the Tables]]</ref> eliminate the bandits' assorted captains,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Dismantling One by One]]</ref> incapacitate the majority of her forces with a strong sedative,<ref name="The Bad Sleep Well"/> and sabotage the weapons stocks of those left unaffected,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[Silencing the Teppo]]</ref> before confronting and killing Yukari herself.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[The Final Assault]]</ref> Despite the group's leadership being eliminated, it did not sway the remaining pockets of members, who wandered the land and persisted in threatening the locals until Naoe and Yasuke tracked them down and killed them, finally eradicating the group.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Claws of Awaji'' – [[All That We Leave Behind]]</ref> | ||
==Members== | ==Members== | ||
*[[Kimura Yukari]] | *[[Kimura Yukari]] | ||
**[[Nowaki]] | **[[Nowaki]] | ||
***Ando Masamune | ***[[Ando Masamune]] | ||
***Chiba Hachibei | ***[[Chiba Hachibei]] | ||
***Goto Ginpachi | ***[[Goto Ginpachi]] | ||
***Inoue Yonekichi | ***[[Inoue Yonekichi]] | ||
***Ishida Shota | ***[[Ishida Shota]] | ||
***Nitta Koheiji | ***[[Nitta Koheiji]] | ||
***Suganuma Tenma | ***[[Suganuma Tenma]] | ||
**[[Yasuhira]] | **[[Yasuhira]] | ||
***Kobayakawa Heitaro | ***[[Kobayakawa Heitaro]] | ||
***Ryuzoji Den | ***[[Ryuzoji Den]] | ||
***So Sachihiko | ***[[So Sachihiko]] | ||
***Yamane Ichi | ***[[Yamane Ichi]] | ||
***Yamanouchi Tobei | ***[[Yamanouchi Tobei]] | ||
**[[Imagawa Tomeji]] | **[[Imagawa Tomeji]] | ||
***[[Amano Buza]] | ***[[Amano Buza]] | ||
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***[[Kuki Shinpachi]] | ***[[Kuki Shinpachi]] | ||
***[[Ogasawara Masakichi]] | ***[[Ogasawara Masakichi]] | ||
***Shimazu Masujiro | ***[[Shimazu Masujiro]] | ||
***Suganuma Heihachi | ***[[Suganuma Heihachi]] | ||
***Tozawa Yataro | ***[[Tozawa Yataro]] | ||
***Watanabe Kinji | ***[[Watanabe Kinji]] | ||
==Behind the scenes== | |||
The ''Sanzoku Ippa'' is the name of the main enemy faction featured in ''[[Claws of Awaji]]'', the [[Assassin's Creed: Shadows downloadable content|downloadable]] expansion for the 2025 video game ''[[Assassin's Creed: Shadows]]'', though its members never refer to themselves as such either through in-universe [[Notes from Naoe and Yasuke's travels|notes]] or in conversation with each other. Instead, it originates from the Awaji locals' derisive name for their oppressors. | |||
The compound name is derived from the words [[wikt:山賊|山賊]] (''sanzoku'', "bandit"), which uses the ''{{Wiki|kan-on}}'' reading of the {{Wiki|Mora (linguistics)|mora}} [[wikt:山#Japanese|山]] (''san'', "mountain") paired with the ''{{Wiki|go-on}}'' reading of [[wikt:賊#Japanese|賊]] (''zoku'', "thief"), and the word 一派 (''–ippa''),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jisho.org/word/一派|title=Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary|author=Ahlström et al.|date=2009|publisher=''Jisho''|accessdate=16 December 2025}}</ref> which uses the ''{{Wiki|kun'yomi}}'' reading of [[wikt:一#Japanese|一]] (''hi'', "one") paired with [[wikt:派#Japanese|派]] (''–ha'', "group, school of thought"). | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180"> | <gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180"> | ||
ACSH Claws of Awaji Promo Image 2.jpg|Two Sanzoku Ippa members watching Naoe | ACSH Claws of Awaji Promo Image 2.jpg|Two ''Sanzoku Ippa'' members watching Naoe | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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{{Templars nav}} | {{Templars nav}} | ||
{{ACSH}} | {{ACSH}} | ||
[[Category:Organizations]] | [[Category:Organizations]] | ||
[[Category:Templar-affiliated groups]] | [[Category:Templar-affiliated groups]] | ||
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The Sanzoku Ippa (山賊一派, lit. "bandit group") was the exonym given to a short-lived Japanese brigand collective[1] led by the Japanese Templar Kimura Yukari[2] that regularly harassed and extorted civilians on Awaji.[1]
History[edit | edit source]
The Sanzoku Ippa as a concept began in 1582, when the Japanese Templar Kimura Kei entrusted his surviving daughter Yukari with training the Saisesha, an army of loyal rōnin which he intended to use in a coup against Nuno Caro and Duarte de Melo, his Templar benefactors. Kei disagreed with Caro and de Melo's plans to influence Japanese politics as a means of controlling the masses, and felt that the Templars' cause would be better carried out by himself. While Yukari showed prowess and ambition in training the regiment, one of Kei's subordinates tasked with covertly observing her warned him that she may have other plans with the Saisesha beneath her veneer of familial loyalty.[3]
After Oda Nobunaga's retainer Yasuke slew Kei[3] for his affiliation with de Melo,[4] Yukari fled to Awaji,[2] where she courted its governing daimyō before usurping control when he was called away.[5] Thereafter, she began assembling her group to exploit the island's residents for her own ends,[2] using her experience in training Kei's army to ensure a strict chain of command was followed. Positioning herself at the group's head, she commanded the bandits through a taishō (大将, lit. "general") triumvirate comprised of her aggrieved bodyguard Imagawa Tomeji as her enforcer,[6] the disguise adept Yasuhira as her spymaster,[7] and Nowaki, an orphan she raised to be a fanatically-loyal ambusher.[8]
When she heard rumors that a stranger had visited the island to find and hide the Imperial Regalia's legendary sword Kusanagi no Tsurugi, Yukari captured the interloper and learned her quarry was the Kakushiba ikki member Fujibayashi Tsuyu. Believing that recovering the sword would help her climb higher in the Templar ranks, Yukari kept Tsuyu imprisoned for years, repeatedly interrogating[2] and torturing her for the sword's location, to no avail.[9]
In 1585, the Assassin Hattori Hanzō found a lead on Tsuyu's possible location through a puppet play that was touring Izumi Settsu, and had his contact Konatsu forward the information to Tsuyu's daughter Naoe,[10] fulfilling an earlier promise he had made to her.[11] Naoe promptly sailed to Awaji and learned that the Sanzoku Ippa were keeping Tsuyu locked up in Sumoto Castle.[12] However, in her eagerness to find her mother, she failed to consider that Yukari had intentionally "leaked" the information to bait her in a trap, hoping to blackmail Tsuyu into revealing the sword's hiding place by threatening her daughter's life.[5]
When Naoe did not return, Konatsu contacted Yasuke, who likewise sailed over[13] and proved instrumental in freeing the Fujibayashi women from captivity.[14] With more help from Hanzō and Konatsu, and supplemented by Tsuyu's knowledge of the island and its people, Naoe and Yasuke worked together to kill Yukari's taishō,[15][16][17] eliminate the bandits' assorted captains,[18] incapacitate the majority of her forces with a strong sedative,[1] and sabotage the weapons stocks of those left unaffected,[19] before confronting and killing Yukari herself.[20] Despite the group's leadership being eliminated, it did not sway the remaining pockets of members, who wandered the land and persisted in threatening the locals until Naoe and Yasuke tracked them down and killed them, finally eradicating the group.[21]
Members[edit | edit source]
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
The Sanzoku Ippa is the name of the main enemy faction featured in Claws of Awaji, the downloadable expansion for the 2025 video game Assassin's Creed: Shadows, though its members never refer to themselves as such either through in-universe notes or in conversation with each other. Instead, it originates from the Awaji locals' derisive name for their oppressors.
The compound name is derived from the words 山賊 (sanzoku, "bandit"), which uses the kan-on reading of the mora 山 (san, "mountain") paired with the go-on reading of 賊 (zoku, "thief"), and the word 一派 (–ippa),[22] which uses the kun'yomi reading of 一 (hi, "one") paired with 派 (–ha, "group, school of thought").
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Two Sanzoku Ippa members watching Naoe
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