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Biographical information<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n| Home<\/td>\n | Japan,\u00a0Earth,\u00a0NYC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ethnicity<\/td>\n | Japanese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Aliases<\/td>\n | Yoshihama Takeshi (TV Tokyo dub)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Nickname(s)<\/td>\n | Splinter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Weapon(s) of choice<\/td>\n | Sword<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Occupation<\/td>\n | Foot Clan\u00a0member, Ninja,\u00a0Utrom Guardian\u00a0(2003 Series)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Affiliation<\/td>\n | Foot Clan,\u00a0Utrom\u00a0Guardians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Physical description<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n | Species<\/td>\n | Human<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Gender<\/td>\n | Male<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Height<\/td>\n | ?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Weight<\/td>\n | ?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Hair color<\/td>\n | Black\/White<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Eye color<\/td>\n | Brown, Black, Grey, Blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Out of universe information<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n | Era(s)<\/td>\n | Mirage,\u00a01987 series,\u00a0First movie,Archie,\u00a02003 series, ,\u00a0Video games<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Publisher<\/td>\n | Mirage Studios,\u00a0Archie Comics,Konami<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | First appearance<\/td>\n | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue 1 (Mirage)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Created by<\/td>\n | Kevin Eastman | \nPeter Laird<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Voiced by<\/td>\n | Peter Renaday\u00a0(1987 series) | \nEric Stuart\u00a0(2003 series)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Hamato Yoshi<\/strong>\u00a0in all continuities, was once a great and honourableninja\u00a0whose story is always closely intertwined with that of\u00a0Splinter. He is almost always dead when the story starts.<\/p>\n In most versions he was the owner of a pet rat who became Splinter; this includes the\u00a0original comics\u00a0and\u00a0Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 cartoon series. The earlier\u00a01987 cartoon series\u00a0(along with theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures\u00a0comics) provided a twist in that Hamato Yoshi\u00a0was<\/strong>\u00a0Splinter, having been turned into a giant rat. This revelation is to also be set in\u00a0Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)).<\/p>\n Eastman and Laird’s TMNT <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In\u00a0the comics, Hamato Yoshi is a highly-ranked member of the\u00a0Foot Clan\u00a0in\u00a0Japan. Splinter is his pet, who copies him as he practicesNinjutsu. When he got romantically involved with\u00a0Tang Shen, he invoked the jealousy ofOroku Nagi, who also loved Shen. When Nagi got enraged with jealousy, Yoshi was forced to kill him to protect Shen. Dishonored for having killed another member of the clan, Yoshi was forced to choose between exile and death. He choose exile and moved to\u00a0New York City\u00a0with Shen. Years later, Oroku Nagi’s brother,\u00a0Oroku Sakikilled them both to avenge Nagi. Splinter escaped to the sewers, where he and the\u00a0Turtles\u00a0were mutated. He taught them Ninjutsu in order to avenge the death of Hamato Yoshi.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In\u00a0Tales of TMNT #22<\/em>, the Turtles encounter\u00a0a female ninja\u00a0with a Shredder gauntlet. She vows to kill the Turtles for crimes Hamato Yoshi committed against her family.<\/p>\n Like in the earlier comics, Hamato Yoshi was a member of the Foot Clan. However, Oroku Saki frames Hamato Yoshi for plotting to kill of one of the Foot’s Clan leaders. Yoshi is exiled to New York City, where he is forced to live in the sewers and befriend the rats. Years later, when Saki moved to New York himself, he dumps the mutagen into the sewers to kill Yoshi. However, the mutagen mutates Yoshi and his four pet turtles. Yoshi turns into a giant rat, the last animal he was in contact with, and takes on the name Splinter, a nickname the Turtles gave him.<\/p>\n The Archie comics gave more backstory to Hamato Yoshi when he, the Turtles and April visited Japan. He recounted his youth training under his Uncle Giyogi near the outskirts of Hiroshima, and personally saw the devastation of the city after the atomic bomb was deployed.<\/p>\n Yoshi’s story, explained in the\u00a0first\u00a0movie mirrors the story of the original comic books, except Oroku Nagi is removed from the story and the conflict is with Oroku Saki himself rather than Oroku Nagi. Instead of fleeing the clan because of a murder of a clan member, Tang Shen persuades Yoshi to flee to America in order to avoid dueling Saki, (presumably to the death) for her hand in marriage. Saki vows vengeance and spent years searching for them. Saki eventually finds and kills both Yoshi and Shen in their New York apartment, leaving Yoshi’s pet rat Splinter homeless. The actor who portrayed him was uncredited.<\/p>\n In the\u00a0third\u00a0Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/em>\u00a0film, the\u00a0turtles\u00a0save a child named\u00a0Yoshi\u00a0from a burning building in 17th century\u00a0Japan,\u00a0Michaelangelo\u00a0getting him out of the building and\u00a0Leonardo\u00a0subsequently performing CPR. This Yoshi’s relationship with Hamato Yoshi is never fully explained, but based on the number of past incarnations of other characters that the turtles meet on this adventure (such as a British ancestor of\u00a0Casey Jones,\u00a0Whit) a direct relationship between this boy and Hamato Yoshi seems implied. If this is indeed the case, then when the turtles save the boy’s life, they are also saving their own future, as their origin is inexorably tied to the fate of Hamato Yoshi.<\/p>\n Hamato Yoshi’s story has been fully revised in this version. The story is revealed in\u00a0A Tale of Master Yoshi.<\/p>\n Hamato Yoshi was an orphan, living in the streets of Japan with his best friend,\u00a0Yukio Mashimi, in the 1960s. When Yoshi returned a 5-yen coin dropped by the\u00a0Ancient One, he took them in for their honesty, raised them as his sons, and taught them Ninjutsu. They both fell in love with Tang Shen, another orphan taken in by the Ancient One. Shen loved Yoshi more. During this time, Shen found a rat in the house and kept him as a pet.<\/p>\n One night, Yoshi, Shen, and Mashimi saw a lone man being attacked by four ninjas. Yoshi and Mashimi decided to help the man and fought off the ninjas. The man was actually the\u00a0Utrom\u00a0Mortu\u00a0and the ninjas were members of the Foot Clan. Impressed by their skill and already having his secret revealed due to battle damage, Martu offered to make the two\u00a0Guardians. They accepted, despite their master’s objections.<\/p>\n As a Guardian, Yoshi seemed to advance continually, while Mashimi never seemed to get anywhere. In anger, he murdered Tang Shen and betrayed the Utroms to The Shredder. Yoshi and the Utroms managed to escape with their lives. When Yoshi returned to the Ancient One, he found his master cradling Tang Shen’s body. In anger, despite counsel from his master, Yoshi stormed the Foot’s citadel and killed Mashimi in single combat.<\/p>\n With their Tokyo base discovered, the Utrom set up a new base in New York under the name\u00a0T.C.R.I.. Yoshi went with them, taking Shen’s rat with him. He named the rat Splinter to remind him of the splinters of anger and hate that drove him to kill Mashimi.<\/p>\n However, the Shredder followed Yoshi and tried to force him to reveal the location of the Utroms. Yoshi resisted and was killed. Splinter escaped to the sewers, where he mutated along with the Turtles. He proceed to teach them Ninjutsu, just as he had learned from Yoshi.<\/p>\n Yoshi was also a champion of the\u00a0Battle Nexus.<\/p>\n It’s revealed in\u00a0The Lost Episodes\u00a0that Yoshi and the Utrom tried to get the\u00a0Ninja Tribunal’s help in the fight against the Utrom Shredder, warning them that the alien may challenge the evil one. Due to their refusal to help, Splinter partially blames them for Yoshi’s death.<\/p>\n When the\u00a0Tengu Shredder\u00a0goes to attack Splinter, Hamato Yoshi manifested from the\u00a0Turtles’ medallions. He snatches the Shredder’s trident and then slashes him with it, causing precious energy to leak from his armor. When the Tengu Shredder was on the verge of defeat, Yoshi manifests himself through the Turtles’ medallions again, which shatters them and then he slayed the demon by slicing him in half.<\/p>\n When you beat the\u00a0very first video game\u00a0Splinter turns back into Yoshi. Yoshi is an unlockable playable character in the\u00a02003 video game. In the\u00a0TMNT GBA game\u00a0you get a Hamato Yoshi Statue Trophy, for finishing all acts and obtaining a total high score.<\/p>\n Hamato Yoshi is a member of the Foot Clan in feudal Japan. When fellow clansman Oroku Saki advocated the murder of innocents, Yoshi left the clan. In retribution, Saki had his wife, Tang Shen, murdered. With her dying breaths, Shen told Yoshi flee with their four sons. Years later, Saki and his ninja caught up to Yoshi and his sons, killing all of them. Before he was slain, he prayed to Buddha and all other powers of the universe that he and his sons would be able to come back for revenge on Saki. In 2011, they were reincarnated as Splinter and the four Turtles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamato Yoshi Biographical information Home Japan,\u00a0Earth,\u00a0NYC Ethnicity Japanese Aliases Yoshihama Takeshi (TV Tokyo dub) Nickname(s) Splinter Weapon(s) of choice Sword Occupation Foot Clan\u00a0member, Ninja,\u00a0Utrom Guardian\u00a0(2003 Series) Affiliation Foot Clan,\u00a0Utrom\u00a0Guardians Physical description Species Human Gender Male Height ? Weight ? Hair… Continue Reading |