Onna Bugiesha | Samurai Warrior Women
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The Onna Bugiesha, or, samurai warrior women are often treated like they were rare, and sometimes a myth. They weren't! Samurai is a class after all, and samurai women most certainly existed. But were they warriors? Indeed they were! Warrior women such as Tomoe Gozen, Ohori Tsuruhime, and Yae Niijima are but examples of Japan's Onna Bugeisha.
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When the enemy is in the walls and the castle is burning, there is no man or woman. There are those that fight and those that die.
There is also the famous story of Nobunaga meeting Dosan at Shotokuji temple (it was written up in Nobunaga`s biography so it appears true). Nobunaga went to the meeting dressed in his normal, wild fashion. But he did bring most of his army and then surprisingly changed into formal clothes surprising even his followers and also impressing Dosan
They definitely had an interesting relationship. I think respected rival is the best way to describe it
Thank you so much for researching and making this video! There's not much information about the Onna Bugiesha out there.
Thank you for watching!
Women in history: "Has dozens or hundreds of badasses showing they can be just as good as the men in every generation"
Society, basically everywhere: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that."
Wait for my video during pride month, I'm really gonna piss of people then..
@@JapanatWar Oh that's another fun one! People denying homosexuality in a culture where homosexuality wasn't taboo!
@@samwill7259 Antony Cummins' Book of Bushido book has a small section about a samurai that was about to convert to Christianity but rejected it when he heard he wasn't allowed to have male lovers anymore lol
@@JapanatWar It's just not part of any Japanese cultural or religious tradition, if anything it's explicitly written into those things. Not that a colonialist could recognize a cultural difference if it hit them upside the head
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i can see that lens argument for movies from the 30s, through to the 70s due to the American legislation at the time on what could and could not be shown.
However. once that was abolished a whole slew of women orientated entertainment came out.
I think a larger factor is language. as even now much of Japanese history has still not been properly translated to this day. add on top of that japan focused movies and entertainment did not really kick of untill the late 90s as anime and some modern samurai movies started to take hold in the west.
And lastly action movies tend to focus on a male audience, and for male audiences a male protagonist tends to do the best. just like the reverse is true for a more female centric audience.
We should recognize though where Japan learned how to write and film for movies. Also that by that time westernization had fully been adopted. Toward the end of the current series I'm working on I'll be touching on this. Even in the last video I did, the Emperor Meiji put out a proclamation saying "the bad traditions to be abolished" things like this are very vague and can be interpreted in many ways and used to suppress things with the simple excuse of "well the West does this and look how successful they are".
@@JapanatWar Like in most things in life it almost never is as simple as just pointing at one thing. But at the end of the day history has shown, if a good story is good it does not really matter. You can list off countless movies, books and songs that broke a mold and took off, but still remain a largely isolated.
I think its a large combination of factors that determines what is and is not popular.
But at the end of the day a movie needs to make money so the market will naturally make genres and niches. like for instance a male dominated action genre and a female dominated romance genre to take some clear cut examples. :)
@@JapanatWar p.s. there needs to be some westernization. at least a little. for it to really catch on.
We need a movie that shows the world this
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woman ninja, i heard it.. but samurai woman, this interesting
I will be happy to wait until your follow up on the topic, but I do wonder how much western lenses are the main factor on not giving these women enough recognition since sadly in many cultures achievements made by women were often minimized. Although if the women described in the video actually had much more recognition in their own or other non-western cultures that would be a welcomed surprise.
They definitely do within Japan! Ohori Tsuruhime's portrait and armour is in a shrine and Tomoe is very much celebrated in festivals and pop culture there!
Am a bit sad that Ginchyo Tachibana wasn't mentioned, but honestly, one small mention wouldn't have done her justice. The woman that Hideyoshi was too timid to visit - my kinda woman!
Very possible they will be getting their own separate video!
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A lens that didn't bother with mediocre figures. They just happened to be there using an advantageous weapon, e.g. teppo, Spencer. Their achievements were a dime a dozen compared to men of their time. Men also used teppo but they're not worth mentioning.
I'd like to see women like Nobunaga, Toyotomi, Musashi, Honda, Ittosai, Yagyu, etc. The women you mentioned is like Nishio Nizaemon, who just happened to be there but didn't develop a renowned martial skill.
You mention 1/2 of the women mentioned and ignore the figure Tomoe Gozen who while I didn't get into much was renowned archer of the time, and also Ohori Tsuruhime who literally boarded a enemy ship and defeated the commander in one on one combat with a sword. So, straw man?
@@JapanatWar well put. Now FINISH HIM!
@@JapanatWar And how is Tomoe and Ohori compared to the historical men I mentioned? Mediocre, that's what. There are too many men equivalent to their achievements that aren't worth mentioning. They aren't mentioned not because of your reasons but they're mediocre. If there is woman that's like Musashi or Nobunaga. I'll be the first to celebrate them.
@@poloshirtsamurai First off I don't believe you. You would simply deny and say their stories are exaggerated.
Second Tomoe was one of the most important and martially successful figures of the Gempei War. The fact that you continue to deny this is what makes me think my first point.
Personally I find their success very impressive, specially because they didn´t have a lot of the technologies we have now that deal with some of the natural disadvantages (when in comes to certain physical tasks) the average woman may experience (like pregnancy or a really painful/debilitating period) and culturally nobody expected or even wanted them to achieve anything in those particular fields, like the military or martial arts. A figure like Toyotomi is particularlly impressive because he was not a noble, he lacked many of the resources and opportunities someone like Nobunaga for example had (Wich doesn´t mean Nobunaga wasn´t very remarkable himself). Many of these women, even those of the bushi class, had plenty stacked againts them making their success more challenging by both biology and society. Overcoming that has a lot of merit IMO.