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The image of samurai women continues to be impactful in martial arts, historical novels, books, and popular culture in general. [42] Like kunoichi (female ninja) and geisha , the onna-musha's conduct is seen as the ideal of Japanese women in movies, animations and TV series.
During the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), the naginata was transformed into a status symbol to distinguish women of samurai families, as well as being the primary means for a woman to defend her home while her husband was away in times of war. This period also saw the propagation of the naginata as a feminine art and the weapon serving as more ...
Lady Kai (甲斐姫) ("hime" means lady, princess, woman of noble family), speculated to have been born in April 15, 1572, was a Japanese female warrior, onna-musha from the Sengoku Period. She was a daughter of Narita Ujinaga [ ja ] and granddaughter of Akai Teruko , retainers of the Later Hōjō clan in the Kantō region .
Tomoe Gozen (巴 御前, Japanese pronunciation: [5]) was an onna-musha, a female samurai, mentioned in The Tale of the Heike. [6] There is doubt as to whether she existed as she doesn't appear in any primary accounts of the Genpei war. She only appears in the epic "The tale of the Heike".
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図) are a genre of Japanese art consisting of painted or woodblock print images of ghosts, demons and other supernatural beings. They are considered to be a subgenre of fūzokuga, "pictures of manners and customs." [1] These types of art works reached the peak of their popularity in Japan in the mid- to late 19th century. [2]
Hangaku Gozen, woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, c. 1885 . Lady Hangaku (坂額御前, Hangaku Gozen) [1] was a onna-musha warrior, [2] [3] one of the relatively few Japanese warrior women commonly known in history or classical literature.
Mikako Tokugawa, wife of Yoshinobu Tokugawa, with hikimayu A poster for the 1953 film Ugetsu.The woman in the foreground has hikimayu.. Hikimayu (引眉) was the practice of removing the natural eyebrows and painting smudge-like eyebrows on the forehead in pre-modern Japan, particularly in the Heian period (794–1185).
Kunoichi (Japanese: くノ一, also くのいち or クノイチ) is a Japanese term for "woman" (女, onna). [1] [2] In popular culture, it is often used for female ninja or practitioner of ninjutsu (ninpo).