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Posted on 05/06/2026 5:18:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"Any woman born in the samurai status group was a 'female samurai' even if she never picked up a weapon, just as any man born into that status group was a samurai, no matter how wimpy/untrained/etc. he may have been," Sean O'Reilly, a professor of Japan studies at Akita International University, told Live Science in an email.
It's unclear how often female samurai fought in battle, however. Women who fought in battle are sometimes called "onna-musha," which translates to "women warriors."
"I must say, as an historian, that onnamusha -- female warriors -- were probably not as frequent or as militarily significant as most people today believe," O'Reilly said.
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| Who was the most famous female samurai warrior of Japan? Played (in the 2013 50-episode NHK drama broadcast by Japan's leading actress, Haruka Ayase. |
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Just watch Netflix. The Samurai were 80lb black LGBTQWTFAI trannies who could beat up entire divisions of well trained and armed white males.
Kill Bill proves there are females.
They know Bushido.
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The professor.
I have agonized over this hugely important question for the past 20 years. Thank goodness, we finally have an answer. I can rest.
There were not many. Many more exist in anime and mangas.
I read these back in the 80s, and still have them so yes I believe
The Tomoe Gozen Trilogy
Author: Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Published: 1981–1984
Loosely based on the real 12th-century warrior woman of the same name, this trilogy features a fierce, highly skilled bushi (female warrior) navigating an alternate universe resembling feudal Japan.
It’s packed with Japanese mythology, demons, and rich, action-packed adventures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoe_Gozen
Someone had to make the gyoza.
Yes guess what she had a jar of.
History is used to validate contemporary socio-political philosophy.
Even the sciences fall victim to this (remember the gay gene, climate change at its apex?). But in the sciences, you can still find where an objective, empirical, methodology was used to come up with an answer.
But things like history or the social sciences, which are interpretive, where we can pick and choose what we want to address (focus in on), tell us a story that nearly always fits the currents of contemporary times or whatever some subculture controlling that narrative wants to teach.
Can history teach us something? Of course.
But given American pop culture, the current fads that are important, you can expect lots of stories about female warriors, female run / led societies, homosexuality being normal in other societies, evil conquistadors and settlers, wholsitic and natural native American indians living in harmony with nature, bla bla bla....
Yes, “history” is mostly junk.
LOL!! It took me a minute!!!
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There are plenty of people like me, who have been interested in history and began reading books containing factual historical accounts as kids, and continue to study it. We are not concerned with or influenced by the reinterpretation of history by pop culture. We know that historical fact is not the stuff in fantasy novels and action movies set in an era of history a couple of 1000 years ago...
That goes for psuedo science, too-anyone who took basic biology in HS knows that genetics do not have anything with homosexuality, gender confusion, etc, nor has it ever. That is a product of parenting and the resulting emotional issues-nurture-not nature, perpetuated by those in society who use the mentally confused/ill for their own purposes...
The idea that female Japanese warriors were common is not promoted by the article-it is doing the opposite-relying on historical fact-and illustrations-to say that although they did exist, they were not a huge group, charging into battle, but rather something of a rare thing, and deferring to males in their family...
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