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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.
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:
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]
Shimazu Kameju (島津亀寿, 1571 - 1630) or Kamejuhime (亀寿姫), was a Japanese noble woman from the Shimazu clan during the Sengoku period.She was the third daughter of Shimazu Yoshihisa, 16th head of the Shimazu clan, and wife to the 18th clan head, Shimazu Iehisa.
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;
Katō Tsune (加藤つね), Shōju-in (松寿院) or Otsune (お安) was a Japanese female warrior from the Sengoku period.She came from the Katō clan and was the wife of the samurai warlord Okumura Nagatomi.
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.
Akohime was the daughter of Chōsokabe Motochika, known for having Unified the island of Shikoku. She was also the sister of Chōsokabe Morichika and wife of Satake Chikanao, a retainer of the Chōsokabe, and bore two sons which would later be known as Igarashi Motonari e Shibata Tomomoto.