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    Posted: 05-Jan-2013 at 10:09
This is interesting: a suit of armor made for a 5ft Japanese warrior woman has recently come up for auction. I've heard of ninja girls infiltrating and assassinating rival warlords (usually with poison), but never of women fighting in open battle:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221017/Samurai-suit-worn-fearsome-5ft-tall-Japanese-warrior-woman-set-fetch-40-000-auction.html
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Here's some invaluable information on this subject, Nick. Make sure to click onto the subsequent pages too. 

A Long History - Japanese Women Warriors
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jan-2013 at 08:46
Female warriors seem to be more widespread than i first thought. No doubt the wives of besieged samurai preferred death in battle over widowhood or rape
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  Quote lirelou Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Jan-2013 at 19:01
Good link Alani Dragon. I knew about the Boshin War, but the rest was news to me. Somewhere I remember a woodblock of a battle on a bridge between Boshin female forces and the emerging Japanese Imperial Army.
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  Quote TheAlaniDragonRising Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-Jan-2013 at 19:09
Originally posted by Nick1986

Female ninja in 16th century Japan:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jc8-dk7s1ZwC&lpg=PA113&dq=kunoichi&pg=PA110#v=onepage&q&f=false
Here is a little more on the Kunoichi, or female ninja: http://www.sask-ninjutsu.com/jom/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=20
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  Quote TheAlaniDragonRising Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-Jan-2013 at 19:13
Here is a Wiki page about the Onna-bugeisha, which are being refered to as female samurai:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna-bugeisha
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Jan-2013 at 14:22
The steel fingernails sound ferocious. Are there any pictures out there?
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