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The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
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. In the West, the onna-musha gained popularity when the historical documentary Samurai Warrior Queens aired on the Smithsonian Channel. [43] [44] Several other channels reprised the documentary.
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".
Kunoichi (Japanese: くノ一, also くのいち or クノイチ) is a Japanese cant term for "woman" (女, onna). [1] [2] In popular culture, it is often used for female ninja or practitioner of ninjutsu (ninpo). The term was largely popularized by novelist Futaro Yamada in his novel Ninpō Hakkenden (忍法八犬伝) in 1964. [1]
Kaede - This Japanese name means "maple tree," AKA a powerful and strong tree. 126. Kaia - A shortened version of the name Kaimbe, which means "warrior.” (Kaimbe is also an amazing name!)
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.
Lady Kai (甲斐姫) ("hime" means lady, princess, woman of noble family), speculated to have been born in 1572, was a Japanese female warrior, onna-musha from the Sengoku Period. She was a daughter of Narita Ujinaga and granddaughter of Akai Teruko, retainers of the Later Hōjō clan in the Kantō region.
Japanese Boy Cat Names. Whether you want a strong, warrior-like name for your feisty feline or a gentle, ... Yuki-onna (the mystical snow-woman) Yurei (ghost) Unique Japanese Cat Names.