Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says

> According to the exhibition, the most celebrated female samurai was Tomoe Gozen who died in 1247, and whose exploits are the subject of *The Tale of the Heike*. She was reported to have ripped off the head of the samurai Uchida Saburo leyoshi who tried to capture her for ransom.

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/british-museum-samurai-women-warrior-myth-b2913476.html

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