Samurai and Bushido - Code, Japan & Meaning

samurai69Tomoe Gozen (1157?-1247?) was an onna-bugeisha (, female martial artist) who served Minamoto no Yoshinaka during the Genpei War (1180-1185). Before the samurai became a formalized caste in the Edo Period (1603-1868),Living in a peaceful time when samurai were like civil servants, Japanese scholars of the 18th and early 19th century gathered and copied evidence of the helmets and armour of the past to