The image of "Female Samurai" has risen a lot over the years but were there really female warriors in premodern Japan or is this just a romanticism of the times? The answer is a bit more complicated.

This video is done in collaboration with channels "Samurai and Ninja History", "Sengoku Studies戦国研究", and "Samurai Traditions of the Tada Genji" Check out their Female Samurai videos!

(I'm the first to release my video this month so I will fill in these videos as they are released!)
Samurai and Ninja History:    • Are Samurai Women a Real thing?  
Sengoku Studies戦国研究:    • The Legend of Ōhōri Tsuruhime 大祝鶴姫: “...  
Samurai Traditions of the Tada Genji: Skipped this month.


Sources Used:
"Women and Asian Martial Traditions" by Michael DeMarco
"OnnaBugeisha, the Female Samurai Warriors of Feudal Japan" from JStore: https://daily.jstor.org/onnabugeisha...
"Women Warriors of Early Japan" by Rochelle Nowaki from University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
Further articles found through the Japanese Wiki Corpus.

Special thanks to Scott from the channel "Sengoku Studies戦国研究" for helping check over the accuracy of the script for this video.



Music:
"Dance Of The Gypsies" by Hanu Dixit

Artwork and Images:
Classical art, which in most cases can be considered public domain.
Art and images from the Nobunaga's Ambition series.
Art from Osprey Publications.
Samurai portrait from the Nobunaga's Ambition series.
Other modern artist renditions and photos, if you see your work in this video please contact me so that I can give you proper credit!



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