Tomoe Gozen Killing Uchida Saburo Ieyoshi at the Battle of Awazu no Hara
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Curationist Object DescriptionTomoe 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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Ishikawa Toyonobu, Tomoe Gozen Killing Uchida Saburo Ieyoshi at the Battle of Awazu no Hara, circa 1750. Metropolitan Museum of Art. This renowned onna-musha (woman samurai) takes on and defeats her martial opponent in a legendary Japanese conflict. Public Domain.
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