Women Warriors In Medieval Japan

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Women warriors in Japan in medieval Japan were usually described as having long, black hair and a fair complexion. They rode horses and handled weapons like bows and arrows and swords. Tomoe Gozen was one of these warriors. She was a figure in the Genpei war where the Minamoto won and moved the Kyoto capital to Kamakura. While she was an important warrior, she was thought of as lower because she was a woman. “Bushido, the ‘Way of the Warrior,’ is ‘a teaching primarily for the masculine sex.’”
Samurai boys and girls fall in love without even seeing each other, and then get married. When the lord they are loyal to dies, the man has to perform seppuku (ritual suicide) to prove his undying loyalty. The wife sends him on his way by saying she must find another husband, making it easier for the man to die without regrets of leaving her. While this is said, all women in Japan were warriors and Bushido was not only for men. …show more content…

Are women not loyal to their husband? She surrenders herself “‘to the good of her husband, home and family.’” While most accounts of battle show little of female involvement, archaeological evidence says otherwise. Armor and weapons were found in 4th century tombs of female rulers. Some historians say that this could be the legendary Empress Jingu. The Nihon Shoki, the chronicles of Japan, credits her with invading Korea while pregnant. They say she put a rock in her loins and went to war. She returned to Japan after a victory and gave birth to the future Emperor Ojin, later called Hachiman, the Shinto God of

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