Iga (伊賀市, Iga-shi) is located in Mie Prefecture. The area around the modern city of Iga corresponds to a portion of ancient Iga Province. The area was noted in the Sengoku period as one of the centres for ninjutsu. The town developed in the Edo period under the Tokugawa Shogunate as a castle town under Iga Ueno Castle. Iga is known as the birthplace of the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō and the home of the ninja Hattori Hanzō.
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Iga (伊賀市, Iga-shi) is located in Mie Prefecture. The area around the modern city of Iga corresponds to a portion of ancient Iga Province. The area was noted in the Sengoku period as one of the centres for ninjutsu. The town developed in the Edo period und
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