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New Day Cafe: Samurai Warrior Women [1]
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Date: 2022-08-11
The website Open Culture had a feature on female samurai warriors. While they defy our stereotypes:
“It turns out, ‘such women did exist.’ Known as onna bugeisha, these fighters “find their earliest precursor in Empress Jingū, who in 200 A.D. led an invasion of Korea after her husband Emperor Chūai, the fourteenth emperor of Japan, perished in battle.” Empress Jingū’s example endured. In 1881, she became the first woman on Japanese currency.
Preceding the all-male samurai class depicted in (James) Clavell and (Akira) Kurosawa, the onna bugeisha ‘learned to use naginata, kaiken, and the art of tanto Jutso in battle,’ the Vintage News tells us. Rather than pay mercenaries to defend them, as the terrified townsfolk do in Seven Samurai, these women trained in battle to protect ‘communities that lacked male fighters.’”
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