Research
Throughout my project I intended to find information about the Onna-bugeisha women throughout the time of war. I wanted to learn more about their roles in society and how there were different biases of gender during that time and the cultural views of current japan.
Considering these sources, it goes into further detail about the implications of the medieval times where the conflict in japan was to maintain outsiders out of japan and keep the culture alive.
There are many encounters were women samurai were involved and given a brief overview of their status. For my project I included different sources that relate back to that period. Examples in my sources are literature from the medieval times, credited articles and journals.
During my research process for looking for primary and secondary sources,A couple of findings for my research were from JSTOR. Throughout that process I noticed there were more secondary sources of my topic.Deducing that to the time period of my topic and not many primary sources involving the encounters during the Boshin-war.
I included maps of where different battles occurred throughout the Boshin War. What I learned from my sources of how the gender culture was quite different in current Japan. Including the way women were praised for their strength throughout the war given insight from the female samurai warrior- Tomoe Gozen.
The questions that I had in mind are, why did the Japanese empire after the war change the ideological expectation of women throughout that time till now? As well, possibly looking further into female warriors from other geographical locations and the experience post-war.
Zotero-link: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5411009/dh390spring2024-vera
Citations
Anderson, Beth J, and Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen. “Onna-Bugeisha ‘Warrior Women’ [University of Central Oklahoma].” Journal of Student Research, April 29, 2019. https://doi.org/10.47611/jsr.vi.681.
“Boshin War.” n.d. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Boshin_war.svg/330px-Boshin_war.svg.png.
Halley, Catherine. “Onna-Bugeisha, the Female Samurai Warriors of Feudal Japan.” JSTOR Daily, December 17, 2022. https://daily.jstor.org/onna-bugeisha-female-samurai-warriors-feudal-japan/.
Brown, Steven T. “From Woman Warrior to Peripatetic Entertainer: The Multiple Histories of Tomoe.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58, no. 1 (1998): 183–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/2652649.
Wright, Diana E. “Female Combatants and Japan’s Meiji Restoration: The Case of Aizu.” War in History 8, no. 4 (2001): 396–417.
Wilson, Adidas. Bushido Code: The Way Of The Warrior In Modern Times. Adidas Wilson, n.d.