Turns out half of samurai were actually women
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>Samurai is a social class>The wives of warriors are a part of that social classAs for the battlefield remains: Japan heavily recorded which samurai were present for battles. There would be records of female samurai. Either the remains are from female levy’s or were dragged out of the losing sides camp/town, raped, and then murdered.
>Actually the vikangs wuz black women>Actually the Spartans wuz black women>Actually knights wuz black women>Actually we all black women
>ahahah nooooo don't attack me ms. female samurai ahaha that would be terrible ahaha nooo don't defeat me with your female femaleness ahaha
>warrior and his wife are buried in the same plot>"OMG LE FEMALE WARRIOR"
>>18409558Samurai is a social class, so of course half of them were women. Why are people acting like the British Museum is saying Japanese women were dressing up in armor and running around with katanas going ooooohhhhoooooo? Oh yeah, culture warriors gotta culture war.
Samurai was a social class, so... technically yeah. If you are born to a samurai family, you are considered samurai, socially. But women samurai weren't warriors, as a general rule. There are uncommon examples of samurai families giving women weapons training from a young age, but that didn't seem to be the normal case. Women warriors were uncommon enough in Japan that pretty much every time they showed up, they got a mention in every historical record of the time. And there are not a lot of those mentions.
>>18409709They say absolutely nothing about women samurai being warriors.
The word samurai is associated with warrior more than class.
>>18409725Wow, I wonder if correcting that misconception is part of what the exhibition is about?
>>18409722>They say absolutely nothing about women samurai being warriors.Then there's absolutely nothing groundbreaking about the exhibit.>>18409729>I wonder if correcting that misconception is part of what the exhibition is about?Definitely not, just look at the choice of using armor used exclusively for war in the exhibit's poster.It's just the usual attempt at publicity through controversy.
>>18409582Is this some kinda POV porn?
>>18409558No, retard.
>>18409558Kikepedia claim there was black samurai by English teachers (trust me)
>>18409731>Poster designed to draw people in and then teach them about what samurai were really like features the thing most commonly and instantly recognisably associated with samuraiYou're mad they didn't use a pen or a fan instead?
>>18409578Das rite
>>18409558Leftist "museums" are full of shit.
>British Museum says
Just stoooop pleaaase. No one asked for this.
>>18409766Yes
>>18410087It's full of shit to say samurai were a social rank?
>>18409558Braindead whitoid take, OP. Everyone knows ALL the samurai were sassy plus-sized nubian women of color (ie see the upcoming Netflix movie).
>>18410816>>18409708It's clickbait attention-seeking.
>>18409558I'm pretty sure they were African-American according to BBC
If you ask me, I’m already sick of the shallow way Westerners cling to the idea of “samurai” like it was some uniquely noble status.The word samurai itself only really started getting thrown around all the time after war had basically disappeared and the so-called “samurai” had long since been reduced to a hollow class in the Edo period, with barely any real fighting left to do.The period when these people were actually living as warriors in any meaningful sense was the roughly 500 years from the Kamakura period to the Sengoku period. And during that time, they mostly did not call themselves “samurai.” They called themselves things like gokenin or bushi.And as for women fighting as warriors on the battlefield, that was of course extremely rare. It’s not like there were literally zero examples, Yaeko Yamamoto, who fought the Meiji government forces with a Spencer rifle during the Boshin War, is one example, but even being generous, cases like that were exceptional as hell.
>>18409558Like what? Ghost of Yotei.
>>18411319Ryse: Son of Rome was wild but kino
>>18409558>Let me tell you about Japan'st. British museum
