I think most people here know the typical Geisha. Very educated and good mannered women. They legacy often dripped all japanese women into the clichee to be silent and submissive. But they direct oppossite is not very known, the Onna-bugeisha.
Onna-bugeisha were women who chosed to train the art of war. They weer placed at the same level as a Samurai. Some of them achieved incredible much renomee, like Empress Jingu. They fought like man and i think their position in japans society is unique in worlds history. Some of them became famous warlords like Tomoe Gozen. She was famous for riding on the first front lines and maul her enemies wilding an enlarged sword.
Onna-bugeisha were women who chosed to train the art of war. They weer placed at the same level as a Samurai. Some of them achieved incredible much renomee, like Empress Jingu. They fought like man and i think their position in japans society is unique in worlds history. Some of them became famous warlords like Tomoe Gozen. She was famous for riding on the first front lines and maul her enemies wilding an enlarged sword.
