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Tomoe Gozen was a renowned onna-musha (女武者), a woman samurai in medieval Japan. Tomoe Gozen appears in Heike Monogatari, a medieval Japanese epic. Here, printmaker Ishikawa Toyonobu depicts her at the Battle of Awazu. A possibly apocryphal legend says that in the Battle of Awazu, Tomoe Gozen dragged an enemy general from horseback and decapitated him.

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