Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, who were members of the bushi (warrior) class. They were trained in the use...

soldiers) and sōhei (warrior monks). The naginata is the iconic weapon of the onna-musha, a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese nobility. A common...

Nakazawa Koto (中沢琴, 1839–October 12, 1927) was a Japanese swordswoman and Onna-musha of the Bakumatsu period. She joined the Rōshigumi and later Shinchogumi...

individuals who have left an enduring mark on history. From the legendary onna musha Nakano Takeko, who led a women's army during the Boshin War, to Sumiko...

Sasaki Rui (佐々木 累) was a Japanese swordwoman, Onna-musha and kenjutsu expert of the early Edo period (mid-17th century). She was known as the "Strangely...

Lady Hangaku (坂額御前, Hangaku Gozen) was a onna-musha warrior, one of the relatively few Japanese warrior women commonly known in history or classical literature...

2026. During Japan's Edo period (17th century), half-white half-Japanese onna-musha (female warrior) Mizu (meaning water) quests for vengeance against four...

14 June 1932), also known as Yamamoto Yaeko (山本 八重子), was a Japanese onna-musha, educator, nurse, and scholar of the late Edo period who lived into the...

1569 – November 30, 1602) was head of the Japanese Tachibana clan and onna-musha during the Sengoku period. She was a daughter of Tachibana Dōsetsu, a...

speculated to have been born in 1572, was a Japanese female warrior, onna-musha from the Sengoku Period. She was a daughter of Narita Ujinaga [ja] and...