Female Samurai Warriors Immortalized in 19th Century Japanese Photos

Female Samurai Warriors Immortalized in 19th Century Japanese Photos
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And yet, it turns out, “such women did exist.” Known as onna bugeisha, these fighters “find their earliest precursor in Empress Jingū, who in 200 A.D. led an invasion of Korea after her husband Emperor Chūai, the fourteenth emperor of Japan, perished in battle.” Empress Jingū’s example endured. In 1881, she became the first woman on Japanese currency.

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