Hangaku Gozen

Lady Hangaku (坂額御前, Hangaku Gozen) was a onna-musha warrior, one of the relatively few Japanese warrior women commonly known in history or classical literature. She took a prominent role in the Kennin Rebellion, an uprising against the Kamakura shogunate in 1201.

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