Rare and Surprising Photographs of the True Last Samurai

Samurai were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. Samurai is a masculine term, but in the Japanese Bushi class – the social class Samurai came from – many women also received training in martial arts and strategy. These women were known as Onna-Bugeisha. When the remains from the site of … Continue reading Rare and Surprising Photographs of the True Last Samurai