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Tomoe Gozen (巴 御前, Japanese pronunciation: [5]) was an onna-musha, a female samurai, mentioned in The Tale of the Heike. [6] There is doubt as to whether she existed as she doesn't appear in any primary accounts of the Genpei war. She only appears in the epic "The tale of the Heike".
In the Fate/Grand Order timeline, Minamoto-no-Yoshinaka is the romantic partner of Tomoe Gozen, an Archer-class servant. Yoshinaka is summoned for the first time as a rogue Saber-class servant in the game Fate/Samurai Remnant where his backstory aligns with Tomoe's.
Tomoe Gozen. The Genpei War (1180–1185) was a war between the Taira (Heike) and Minamoto (Genji) clans, two very prominent Japanese clans of the late-Heian period.The epic The Tale of the Heike was composed in the early 13th century in order to commemorate the stories of courageous and devoted samurai. [7]
Rokudai Gozen, last descendant of the Taira clan, son of Taira no Koremori, grandson of Taira no Shigemori and great-grandson of Taira no Kiyomori. First reprieved by Minamoto no Yoritomo when he was ca. 12 years old (13 years old Japanese style), but then beheaded when he was ca. 29 years old (30 years old Japanese style) after he had become a ...
Tomoe Gozen (c. 1157 – c. 1247) was an onna-bugeisha. Marishi-Ten the goddess of heaven , who was adopted by warriors in the 8th century as a protector and patron goddess . While devotions to Marishi-ten predate Zen , they appear to be geared towards a similar meditative mode to enable the warrior to achieve a more heightened spiritual level.
Yo Oizumi as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Masako's husband and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate. Masaki Suda as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoritomo's younger brother; Sō Kaku as Benkei; Shizuka Ishibashi as Shizuka Gozen, Yoshitsune's mistress; Tōko Miura as Sato, Yoshitsune's wife; Daichi Kaneko as Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shogun
His consort, Tomoe Gozen was captured and taken to Kanagawa, where she was forced to marry one of Yoritomo's generals, Wada Yoshimori. She was the mother of Asahina Yoshihide. After the Wada clan was destroyed in a coup in 1203, she escaped to Fukumitsu, Toyama, where she became a nun. Her subsequent history is uncertain.
Salmonson is the author of the Tomoe Gozen trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai Tomoe Gozen.Her other novels are The Swordswoman, Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman, an Asian fantasy, and a modern horror novel, Anthony Shriek.