Some of the champions in the war tales are remarkably, girls, for in
the early feudal age the women of Japan had not yet been reduced to the
humble submissiveness that would be their posture in later centuries.
They were expected to exhibit the same loyalty and bravery as the men,
and occasionally a women exceptionally endowed with these qualities won
an honored place in the warrior coterie.
The Story of Tomoe
A story that continously inspires our very own Warriorshi is that of
a female warrior named Tomoe. Tomoe of the Minamota faction must
have been legendary herself:
Tomoe had long black hair and a
fair complexion, and her face was very lovely; moreover she was a fearless
rider whom neither the fiercest horse nor the roughest ground could dismay,
and so dexterously did she handle sword and bow that she was a match for
a thousand warriors and fit to meet either god or devil. Many times had
she taken field, armed at all points, and won matchless renown in encounters
with the bravest captains, and so in the last fight, when all the others
had been slain or had fled, among the last seven there rode Tomoe.
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