Tomoe Gozen holds the head of slain enemy Uchida Ieyoshi at the Battle of Awazu in 1184. She is one of the first and most legendary warrior women in the centuries samurai ruled Japan.

Discover the powerful and largely untold history of Japan’s Onna-musha - female samurai warriors who stood alongside men on the battlefield. In this documentary, we explore their role in feudal ...

readings + video The Bushido Code: An Overview Bushido, which means "way of the warrior," refers to a complex set of Japanese values stressing honor and loyalty to country and family above all else.

A staged 19th-century enactment of the suicide ritual known as seppuku, in which the warrior, in white, cuts himself across the belly while his second, or kaishaku, prepares to decapitate him.

“Seven Samurai,” made in Japan in the early 1950s, was by far the most expensive film then made in the country. And it required the longest shoot, in part because the exhausted director needed ...