Tomoe Gozen

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Genpei WarEdit

File:Tomoe Gozen Killing Uchida Ieyoshi at Battle of Awazu no Hara (1184) MET DP135504.jpg

"Tomoe Gozen Killing Uchida Ieyoshi at Battle of Awazu no Hara (1184)", print by Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1750.

She commanded, under the leadership of Yoshinaka, 300 samurai against 2,000 warriors of the rival Taira clan during the war. After defeating the Taira in 1182 and driving them into the western provinces, Yoshinaka took Kyoto and desired to be the leader of the Minamoto clan. His cousin Yoritomo was prompted to crush Yoshinaka, and sent his brothers Yoshitsune and Noriyori to kill him.

Yoshinaka fought Yoritomo's forces at the Battle of Awazu on February 21, 1184, where Tomoe Gozen took at least one head of the enemy. Although Yoshinaka's troops fought bravely, they were outnumbered and overwhelmed. When Yoshinaka was defeated there, with only a few of his soldiers standing, he told Tomoe Gozen to flee because he wanted to die with his foster brother .

There are varied accounts of what followed. At the Battle of Awazu in 1184,<ref name=Turnbull2>Template:Cite book</ref> she is known for beheading Honda no Morishige of Musashi.<ref>Faure, Bernard. (2003). Template:Google books; Kitagawa, p. 521.</ref> She is also known for having killed Uchida Ieyoshi and for escaping capture by Hatakeyama Shigetada.<ref>Joly, Henri L. (1967). Legend in Japanese Art, p. 540.</ref> After Tomoe Gozen beheaded the leader of the Musashi clan, she presented his head to her master Yoshinaka.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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ReferencesEdit

Faure, Bernard (2003). The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC.
Joly, Henri L. (1967). Legend in Japanese Art: A Description of Historical Episodes, Legendary Characters, Folk-lore Myths, Religious Symbolism, Illustrated in the Arts of Old Japan. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC.
Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, ed. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC.
McCullough, Helen Craig (1988). The Tale of the Heike. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC.
Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC.

External linksEdit

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Famous Women of Japanese History Template:Webarchive. The Samurai Archives Japanese History Page.
Shea, L. "Tomoe Gozen - Female Samurai". Bella Online, 2009.

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