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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.
He gave boys' names to the fighters, and girls' names to the others. Later, training aircraft were named after trees, [3] [4] single engine reconnaissance aircraft were given men's names and multi-engine aircraft of the same type were given women's names. Transports were given girls' names that all began with the letter "T".
Kazuo Misaki (三崎 和雄), Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former judoka; Kiyoshi Misaki (見崎 清志, born 1946), Japanese racing driver; Mitsuhiro Misaki (見崎 充洋, born 1970), Japanese football player; Nako Misaki (岬 なこ), Japanese voice actress and singer; Shiro Misaki (三崎 四郎), Japanese football ...
100 Japanese Girl Names. With so many wonderful Japanese girl names to choose from, how will you decide? Hopefully, this list of 100 names will help you narrow it down. Aoi. Himari. Emi. Noemi ...
Some prominent Japanese-American women with Japanese names include artist and musician Yoko Ono, singer-songwriter Mitski (born Mitsuki Laycock), civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, "Orange is ...
Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 544 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The term is thought to derive from the names of characters that resemble the three strokes in the Japanese kanji character for "woman" (女, onna) in the following stroke order: "く" is a hiragana character pronounced "ku" "ノ" is a katakana character pronounced "no" "一" is a kanji character pronounced "ichi" (and meaning "one").
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".