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    Nakano Takeko was a female samurai warrior who lived during the Edo period in Japan. Despite women typically being confined to domestic roles, Takeko excelled in martial arts. She created her own all-female warrior unit, the Aizu Joshitai, to fight for the Tokugawa clan during the 1860s civil war. In 1868, Takeko refused orders to surrender and fought until her death, killing many enemy soldiers. She asked for her head to be cut off rather than taken as a trophy by the enemy.

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    Nakano Takeko was a female samurai warrior who lived during the Edo period in Japan. Despite women typically being confined to domestic roles, Takeko excelled in martial arts. She created her own all-female warrior unit, the Aizu Joshitai, to fight for the Tokugawa clan during the 1860s civil war. In 1868, Takeko refused orders to surrender and fought until her death, killing many enemy soldiers. She asked for her head to be cut off rather than taken as a trophy by the enemy.

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    Sofía Chajón 1IB

    Nakano Takeko
    中野 竹子
    From the 10th to the 19th century in Japan existed brave warriors
    named samurai. They dedicated their entire life to a group of
    moral principles, seek for mind stillness and master the art of
    the sword.

    Samurai were mainly men, as the women’s role was to


    take care of the house and the family. But there where a
    some women who de ied this standards and became
    warriors as well, they were called onna bugeisha.

    During the Edo period (1603-1868), when the Tokugawa


    Shogunate ruled instead of the imperial family in Japan,
    Nakano Takeko was born (1847) as the daughter of an
    Aizu o icial named Nakano Heinai. She grew up excelling
    in martial arts and became skilled with a naginata
    (a traditional weapon wielded by onna bugeisha) with her
    teacher, Akaoka Daisuke, who adopted her in the 1860s.

    The Meiji imperial family wanted to rule Japan again, therefore


    a civil war broke out in the mid-1860s. Nakano wanted to take
    part in the Aizu army in favor of the Tokugawa, but was banned
    because of being a woman. She didn’t give up, so she created her own female warriors army,
    the Aizu Joshitai.

    In 1868, the Tokugawa decided to surrender to the imperials, that’s why they instructed the
    army to hold their ire, but nor the Aizu nor Nakano obeyed, ighting until death.

    The Aizu Joshitai was so


    overwhelming and strong that the
    imperials planned to capture
    them. However, they had to
    change their strategy because the
    onna bugeisha were killing many
    of the imperials. Nakano was
    deathly shot in her chest, but she
    refused to let the imperials have
    her head as a trophy, so she asked
    her sister, Yuko, to do the seppuku
    ritual (cutting her head) and bury
    it under a tree in the Hokaiji
    temple.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    - HTTPS://WWW.HUELLASDEMUJERESGENIALES.COM/NAKANO-TAKEKO/
    - HTTPS://YAMATOMAGAZINE.HOME.BLOG/2019/07/13/WARRIOR-WOMEN-NAKANO-TAKEKO/
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