
thumb|Ishi-jo wielding a naginata, woodblock print by [[Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1848]]
thumb|Ishi-jo wielding a naginata, woodblock print by [[Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1848]]
is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, who were members of the (warrior) class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; many of them fought in battle alongside samurai men. also have an important presence in Japanese literature, with Tomoe Gozen and Hangaku Gozen being famous and influential examples.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).