Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Onna-musha (Before the Battle of Awazu) Tomoe Gozen ( 巴 御前 , Japanese pronunciation: [tomo.e] [ 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.
Tomoe Gozen (c. 1157 – c. 1247) was an onna-bugeisha. Marishi-Ten the goddess of heaven , who was adopted by warriors in the 8th century as a protector and patron goddess . While devotions to Marishi-ten predate Zen , they appear to be geared towards a similar meditative mode to enable the warrior to achieve a more heightened spiritual level.
Nakano Takeko (中野 竹子, April 1847 – 16 October 1868) was a Japanese female warrior of the Aizu Domain, who fought and died during the Boshin War.During the Battle of Aizu, she fought with a naginata (a Japanese polearm) and was the leader of an ad hoc corps of female combatants who fought in the battle independently.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
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.
The naginata (なぎなた, 薙刀) is a polearm and one of several varieties of traditionally made Japanese blades (). [1] [2] Naginata were originally used by the samurai class of feudal Japan, as well as by ashigaru (foot soldiers) and sōhei (warrior monks). [3]
Motsugai was called to Kyoto as a mediator during the Meiji Restoration, and there he had a famous confrontation with the Shinsengumi. [5] Once while he was walking around the city, Motsugai spotted an open training hall where the Shinsengumi were sparring with their shinai swords and stopped to observe them. The policemen were offended by this ...