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The list Women of medieval Japan includes Komatsuhime, Aya-Gozen, Maeda Matsu, Tsuchida Gozen and Shizuka Gozen. The list consists of 89 members and 10 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Tsuruhime
    Japanese female warrior
    Tsuruhime
    Overview: Tsuruhime (鶴姫) or Ōhōri Tsuruhime (大祝鶴姫, 1526–1543) was a Sengoku period female warrior (Onna-bugeisha). She was the daughter of Ōhōri Yasumochi, a head priest of Ōyamazumi Shrine on the island of Ōmishima ...
    Date of birth: 1526
    Date of death: 1543
    Age: 16 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Female
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  • 2.

    Hōjō Masako
    Japanese politician
    Hōjō Masako
    Overview: Hōjō Masako (北条 政子, 1156 – August 16, 1225) was a political leader, and the eldest daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa (the first shikken, or regent, of the Kamakura shogunate) by his wife Hōjō no Maki. She was ...
    Date of birth: 1156
    Date of death: 16 August 1225
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Female
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    12th-century Buddhist nuns 3T
    13th-century Buddhist nuns 3T
    13th-century Japanese women 3T
  • 3.

    Rikei
    Japanese noble lady, calligrapher, poet and scholar
    Rikei
    Overview: Rikei (理慶, 1530 – September 23, 1611) was a Japanese noble lady, calligrapher, poet and scholar. She was the eldest daughter of Katsunuma Nobutomo (勝沼 信友), a samurai of the Sengoku period. She lived as ...
    Date of birth: 1530
    Date of death: 23 September 1611
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Female
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  • 4.

    Saigō-no-Tsubone
    Consort of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1552–1589)
    Saigō-no-Tsubone
    Overview: Lady Saigō (西郷局 or 西郷の局 Saigō no Tsubone, 1552 – 1 July 1589), also known as Oai, was one of the concubines of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the samurai lord who unified Japan at the end of the sixteenth century and ...
    Date of birth: 1552
    Date of death: 1 July 1589
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Other
    Gender: Female
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    Japanese concubines 13T
    16th-century Japanese women 58T
    16th-century Buddhists 4T
  • 5.

    Aya-Gozen
    Japanese monk (1524–1609)
    Overview: Lady Aya (綾御前, Aya-Gozen, 1524 – March 10, 1609) was a Japanese noble woman from the Sengoku period. She was the half-sister of Japanese warlord Uesugi Kenshin. She was also the mother of Uesugi Kagekatsu ...
    Date of birth: 1524
    Date of death: 1609
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Gender: Female
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    17th-century Japanese women 39T
    16th-century Japanese women 58T
    People of Sengoku-period Japan 65T
  • 6.

    Maeda Matsu
    Japanese samurai class woman
    Maeda Matsu
    Overview: Maeda Matsu (前田まつ), also known as Omatsu no Kata (お松の方) (1547–1617), was a Japanese noble lady and aristocrat of the 16th century. She was the wife of Maeda Toshiie, who founded the Kaga Domain. Matsu ...
    Date of birth: 25 June 1547
    Date of death: 1617
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Female
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    16th-century Buddhist nuns 6T
    17th-century Buddhist nuns 8T
    17th-century Japanese women 39T
  • 7.

    Tsuchida Gozen
    Japanese noblewoman and mother of Oda Nobunaga
    Tsuchida Gozen
    Overview: Dota Gozen (土田 御前, d. 26 February 1594), also known as Tsuchida Gozen, was a Japanese noblewoman and the mother of Oda Nobunaga, a major daimyō and politician of the Sengoku period regarded as the first ...
    Date of death: 26 February 1594
    Nationality: Japanese
    Gender: Female
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    16th-century Japanese women 58T
    16th-century Japanese people 97T
    1594 deaths 144T
  • 8.

    Shizuka Gozen
    Japanese noble
    Overview: Shizuka Gozen (???) (1165–1211), or Lady Shizuka, one of the most famous women in Japanese history and literature, was a shirabyoshi (court dancer) of the 12th century, and a mistress of Minamoto no Y ...
    Date of birth: 1165
    Date of death: 1211
    Age: 45 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Gender: Female
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    12th-century Buddhist nuns 3T
    13th-century Buddhist nuns 3T
    Deified Japanese people 158T
  • 9.

    Lady Kasuga
    Japanese politician
    Lady Kasuga
    Overview: Lady Kasuga (春日局, Kasuga no Tsubone, 1579 – October 26, 1643) was a Japanese noble lady and politician from a prominent Japanese samurai family of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. Born Saitō Fuku (斉藤福) ...
    Date of birth: 1579
    Date of death: 26 October 1643
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Nurse
    Gender: Female
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    17th-century women politicians 3T
    16th-century women politicians 5T
    17th-century Japanese women 39T
  • 10.

    Izumi Shikibu
    Japanese poet
    Izumi Shikibu
    Overview: Izumi Shikibu (Japanese: 和泉式部, born 976?) was a mid-Heian period Japanese poet. She is a member of the Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals (中古三十六歌仙, chūko sanjurokkasen). She was the contemporary of ...
    Date of death: 1030
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    10th-century Japanese women writers 12T
    11th-century Japanese women writers 5T
    Heian period Buddhists 12T
  • 11.

    Komatsuhime
    Japanese female warrior on Sengoku period
    Komatsuhime
    Overview: Komatsuhime (小松姫) (1573 – March 27, 1620) was a female warrior (onna-bugeisha) during late-Sengoku period and early Edo period . Born the daughter of Honda Tadakatsu, she was adopted by Tokugawa ...
    Date of birth: 1573
    Date of death: 27 March 1620
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Female
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    17th-century Japanese women 39T
    16th-century Japanese women 58T
    People of Edo-period Japan 193T
  • 12.

    Senhime
    Eldest daughter of Japanese shogun Tokugawa Hidetada (1597–1666)
    Senhime
    Overview: Senhime (千姫) (May 26, 1597 – March 11, 1666), or Lady Sen, was the eldest daughter of the shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada and later the wife of Toyotomi Hideyori. She was remarried to Honda Tadatoki after the ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1597
    Date of death: 11 March 1666
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Spouse
    Gender: Female
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    17th-century Buddhist nuns 8T
    17th-century Japanese women 39T
    People of Sengoku-period Japan 65T
  • 13.

    Yodo-dono
    Japanese samurai class woman
    Yodo-dono
    Overview: Yodo-dono (淀殿) or Yodogimi (淀君) (1567 – June 4, 1615) was a prominently placed figure in late-Sengoku period. She was the daughter of Oichi and sister of Ohatsu and Oeyo. She was a concubine and second ...
    Date of birth: 1567
    Date of death: 4 June 1615
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Relative
    Gender: Female
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    Deified Japanese people 158T
    Japanese concubines 13T
    17th-century Japanese women 39T
  • 14.

    Kitsuno
    Concubine of Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga
    Kitsuno
    Overview: Kitsuno (生駒 吉乃, Ikoma Kitsuno, c. 1538–1566) was a concubine of Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga during the Warring-states period (or Sengoku period) in Japanese history. She was born into the third generation ...
    Date of birth: 1538
    Date of death: 1566
    Age: 27 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Relative
    Gender: Female
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    Japanese concubines 13T
    16th-century Japanese women 58T
    People of Sengoku-period Japan 65T
  • 15.

    Nōhime
    Wife of Oda Nobunaga, a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history
    Nōhime
    Overview: Lady Nō (Japanese: 濃姫, Hepburn: Nōhime, Nohime), also known as Kichō (帰蝶), was the legal wife of Oda Nobunaga, a major daimyō during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. Her proper name was Kichō, but ...
    Date of death: 21 June 1612
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Spouse
    Gender: Female
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    17th-century Japanese women 39T
    16th-century Japanese women 58T
    Saitō clan 9T
  • 16.

    Oichi
    Historical figure in the late Sengoku period (1547–1583)
    Oichi
    Overview: Oichi (お市, 1547 – June 14, 1583) was a female historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She is known primarily as the mother of three daughters who became prominent figures in their own right – Y ...
    Date of birth: 1547
    Date of death: 14 June 1583
    Age: 35 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Gender: Female
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    16th-century Japanese women 58T
    People of Sengoku-period Japan 65T
    16th-century Japanese people 97T
  • 17.

    Princess Shikishi
    Japanese classical poet
    Princess Shikishi
    Overview: Princess Shikishi or Shokushi (式子内親王 Shikishi/Shokushi Naishinnō) (1149 – March 1, 1201) was a Japanese classical poet, who lived during the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. She was the third d ...
    Date of death: 1201
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    12th-century Japanese women writers 1T
    12th-century Buddhist nuns 3T
    12th-century Japanese writers 1T
  • 18.

    Oeyo
    Historical Japanese figure (1573–1626)
    Oeyo
    Overview: Oeyo (於江与), Gō (江), Ogō (小督) or Satoko (達子) : 1573 – September 15, 1626) was a prominently-placed female figure in the Azuchi–Momoyama period and early Edo period. She was daughter of Oichi and the sister ...
    Date of birth: 1573
    Date of death: 26 October 1626
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Gender: Female
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    Deified Japanese people 158T
    17th-century Japanese women 39T
    16th-century Japanese women 58T
  • 19.

    Hosokawa Gracia
    Member of the Akechi family during the Sengoku period
    Hosokawa Gracia
    Overview: Akechi Tama, usually referred to as Hosokawa Garasha (細川ガラシャ), (1563 – 25 August 1600) was a member of the aristocratic Akechi family from the Sengoku period. Gracia is best known for her role in the Battle ...
    Date of birth: 1563
    Date of death: 25 August 1600
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Female
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    Deified Japanese people 171T
    Ōshū-Hosokawa clan 6T
    16th-century Japanese women 72T
  • 20.

    Murasaki Shikibu
    Japanese writer
    Murasaki Shikibu
    Overview: Murasaki Shikibu (紫 式部, English: Lady Murasaki; c. 973 or 978 – c. 1014 or 1031) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the ...
    Date of birth: 973
    Date of death: 1014
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Heian period Buddhists 12T
    Murasaki Shikibu 5T
    11th-century Japanese writers 1T
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