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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.
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.
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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.
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]
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