Japanese Culture and Female Warrior of Twelfth-Century (Tomoe Gozen)

Japanese Culture and Female Warrior of Twelfth-Century (Tomoe Gozen)

Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

Tomoe Gozen stands as one of the most celebrated female warriors of twelfth-century Japan, a figure rooted in the turbulent final decades of the Heian period (794–1185). This was an age marked by the gradual erosion of courtly aristocratic power and the decisive rise of the warrior class, a transformation that culminated in the Genpei War (1180–1185) between the rival Taira and Minamoto clans.