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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.
In the West, the onna-musha gained popularity when the historical documentary Samurai Warrior Queens aired on the Smithsonian Channel. [41] [42] Several other channels reprised the documentary. The 56th NHK taiga drama, Naotora: The Lady Warlord, was the first NHK drama where the female protagonist is the head of a samurai clan. [43]
The list includes the following persons: Women who inherited the leadership of a samurai clan. A woman who was named commander of the castle by a Daimyo. Due to the death of a male owner, his wife or daughter formally inherit the leadership of the castle. The list does not include:
A list of samurai from the Sengoku Period (c.1467−c.1603), a sub-period of the Muromachi Period in feudal Japan. Samurai. A. Akai Naomasa; Akai Teruko; Akao Kiyotsuna;
Lady Ichikawa (市川局 Ichikawa no Tsubone, d.April 5, 1585) was a Japanese female warrior from the Sengoku period who helped drive out Ouchi and the Otomo clan from Chugoku. [1]
The bestowal of a title depended on social class and the relationship with her samurai lord, such as whether she was a legitimate wife or a concubine, and whether or not she had had children by him. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The word tsubone indicates the living quarters reserved for ladies of a court, [ 4 ] and it became the title for those who had been ...
Komatsuhime (小松姫) (1573 – March 27, 1620) was a female warrior during the Azuchi-Momoyama period and early Edo period.Born the daughter of Honda Tadakatsu, she was adopted by lord Tokugawa Ieyasu, before marrying Sanada Nobuyuki.
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.