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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".
The following is a list of Samurai and their wives. They are listed alphabetically by name. Some have used multiple names, and are listed by their final name. Note that this list is not complete or comprehensive; the total number of persons who belonged to the samurai-class of Japanese society, during the time that such a social category existed, would be in the millions.
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.
Lady Otsuya (おつやの方 Otsuya no Kata) was a Japanese female samurai from the Sengoku period. She was the ruler of Iwamura Castle until the last days of her life. According to legend, Otsuya is best known for the aunt of the famous samurai Oda Nobunaga, the wife of Tōyama Kagetō and foster mother of Oda Katsunaga.
Name (birth–death) Shogun from Shogun until 1 Kose no Maro: 709 2 Tajihi no Agatamori: 720 721 3 Ōtomo no Yakamochi (c. 718–785) 784 785 4 Ki no Kosami: 788 789 5 Ōtomo no Otomaro (731–809) 793 794 6 Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758–811) 797 808 7 Funya no Watamaro (765–823) 811 816 8 Fujiwara no Tadabumi (873–947) 940 9 Minamoto no ...
Myōrin (妙林) or Yoshioka Myorin-ni (吉岡妙林尼) was a late-Sengoku period female warlord onna-musha. She was the wife of Yoshioka Akioki a samurai warlord, and served Otomo clan in Bungo. She was the heroic woman who defended the Otomo clan in the Kyūshū campaign against Shimazu's army.
Her Samurai Warriors 3 incarnation is also a playable character in Pokémon Conquest, in which her partner Pokémon are Darumaka and its evolution Darmanitan. She appears in Magitech Corporation's video game Takeda 3 as a prominent character under the name Narita Kaihime. She is an obtainable unit in the mobile game The Battle Cats.
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 portrait of Joan of Arc has not survived; this artist's interpretation was painted between AD 1450 and 1500.