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Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, [1] [2] who were members of the bushi class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] many of them fought in battle alongside samurai men.
Japanese women from the Asuka period (538) to start of the Edo period (1603). This covers Classical Japan and Feudal Japan classification periods. Feminism portal
By the mid-Nara period (ca. 750) Japanese paintings showed influences of the Chinese Tang dynasty (618–907) and in the 9th century early Heian period evolved into the Kara-e genre. Wall murals in the Takamatsuzuka Tomb, the Kitora Tomb and the Portrait of Kichijōten at Yakushi-ji exemplify the Kara-e style. Generally, Nara period paintings ...
Chigusa Kitani (1895–1947), painter and painting teacher; Yuko Takada Keller (born 1958), artist, curator, writer, based in Denmark; Asami Kiyokawa (born 1980), embroidery artist; Rieko Kodama (born 1963), video game designer, artist; Nahoko Kojima (born 1981), paper cut artist; Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015), video artist, sculptor
Kiyohara Yukinobu struck out on a path in the late 17th century that few women in Japan had navigated, becoming an accomplished artist in the Kanō school — and, for a century after, was name ...
Izanagi: (伊邪那岐神) was a creation deity; he makes up the seventh generation of the Kamiyonanayo, along with his wife and sister, Izanami. [8]Izanami: (伊邪那美神) was a creation deity; she makes up the seventh generation of the Kamiyonanayo, along with her husband and brother, Izanagi.
A stone foundation section of the Mount Shioji Ōnojō Castle Ruins, where construction began in 665 A wall mural depicting ladies, from the west wall of the Takamatsuzuka Tomb, late 7th century, Asuka period. Chinese culture had been introduced to Japan by the Three Kingdoms of Korea before the imperial Japanese embassies to China were
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.