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Female Samurai Infographics 

Redesign the infographics of the original slides I did some time ago.

Although there are more female warriors and leaders that I do not know of yet or have not read, these are the ones that I know of at present that I’d like to share. A list of amazing women who made a lasting impression to historians and Japanese girls today learning Kyudo and Yabusame.

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Beautiful and powerful women and girls 🌸🔥

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New characters have been added to the Basara family! Kato Kiyomasa (cv: Eguchi Takuya) and Komatsu-hime (cv: Akenaya Himika)

They also released a commemorative logo and an illustration made by Makoto Tsuchibayashi, for the coming 15th anniversary of the game.

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Female Samurai - Onna Musha

You have heard the tales of Samurai from western films, anime, games, documentaries and more, but have you heard about the tales of female Samurai or Onna Musha? 

I tried to compile a list of female samurais that I know of and summarize their stories into one page for each character.

Their stories are tragic but at the same time inspiring as warriors are not the ones that always win but always fight.

Today, when everyone is looking for a female figure to look up to, we can always look back at our history where they have already existed. 

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Sanada Maru Ep 34

Inahime aka Komatsuhime, the daughter of Tokugawa’s fearsome Samurai, Honda Tadakatsu, pledges her allegiance to her husband, Sanada Nobuyuki.

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Female Samurai : Komatsuhime

The daughter of a well-known vassal, Honda Tadakatsu and because of his loyalty to Tokugawa Ieyasu, Komatsuhime was eventually adopted by Ieyasu as his own daughter. After some time, Komatsuhime married Sanada Nobuyuki. 

After witnessing the martial prowess of the Sanada at the First Battle of Ueda Castle, she and her father were captivated by them. Tokugawa Ieyasu himself arranged for Komatsuhime to marry Sanada Nobuyuki.

However, Nobuyuki and his father, Masayuki decided to side with opposing parties. Having Ieyasu as his father-in-law, Nobuyuki eventually decided to side with the Tokugawa clan while Masayuki opted not to. 

On his way to Ueda Castle with his other son Yukimura, Masayuki stopped by Numata Castle to see his grandchildren. At the time, Komatsuhime was in the castle managing its affairs. 

Having heard the message of her father-in-law, Komatsuhime faced Masayuki in full battle armor. She did not allow Masayuki to enter the castle due to their conflicts despite their relationship. 

Hence, Masayuki and Yukimura were not able to see the children and had to withdraw to a temple called Shokaku-ji. Surprisingly, Komatsuhime arrived in the temple, bringing her children with her. Despite the conflict between the two parties, Komatsuhime honored the wishes of Masayuki to see his grandchildren.

Following the Battle of Sekigahara, both men were in exile. Komatsuhime took it upon herself to send them food and other daily needs.

Komatsuhime was often admired not just as a good wife to Nobuyuki but also as a wise mother, which people called Ryosai Kenbo. 

Her death later at the age of 47 saddened a lot of people, particularly, her husband, Nobuyuki who said, “the light of my house has been extinguished”.

Today, some of the items that she once used can be found in the museum located at Ueda Castle. This includes her palanquin. 

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Personal Note :

What fascinates me about her is that she managed to balance her loyalty and duty to her lord and clan with her husband and family.

While she denies entry to her father in law and brother in law into the castle to see her children out of respect to her lord, the Tokugawa, she brings them out to see them outside of the castle instead which is technically acceptable as her orders was to deny their entry into the castle. This proves what people who knew her in person that she is indeed intelligent to be true. 

While the western world is figurinout the definition of a true female hero, there are already several who existed in history that not many are aware of. Except for Mulan, thanks to Disney. And it is for this reason that I decided to start sharing posts about any female samurai warriors I discovered and learned about. 

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Mission completed for today.

Got the hatsumoude stamp from Haruna Shrine, featuring the Joshu Sanada husband and wife (Sanada Nobuyuki & Komatsu-hime).

I'll try and post more about this in the upcoming days; thank goodness for the upcoming three-day weekend this week!