Image via Wikipedia Possibly the most famous Japanese fighting woman, Tomoe Gozen (toe.moe.e go.zen) has captured the imagination of the Japanese for several centuries. Her name is also starting to quite recognized in the US, largely thanks to a series of novels by Jessica Amanda Salmonson called the The Tomoe Gozen Saga. Who was Tomoe [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Made famous by the Disney movie Mulan, Hua Mulan is the hero of a chinese ballad called The Song of Mulan, dating from around 5 C.E. (A.D.). The ballad [English translation] opens with Mulan weaving as she worries about her father who’s been called to military duty by the Khan. He is [...]
According to the legend, Wing Chun began in the Qing Dynasty, a time when the Chinese Han majority had been conquered and ruled by Manchurian nobility from the north. The harsh rule of the Han by the Manchurians is historical fact — I’m not a scholar of Chinese history, so the true extent of how [...]
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Image via Wikipedia How many warrior women of legend and history can you name? On Friday, and periodically after that, I’m going to pick one of these women and (briefly) tell her story. Friday will be the legend of the “founders” of Wing Chun, Ng Mui and her student, Yim Wing Chun. I will attempt [...]
