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Tomoe Gozen

1157 - 1247

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Tomoe Gozen (巴 御前, Japanese pronunciation: [tomo.e]) was an onna-musha, a female samurai, mentioned in The Tale of the Heike. There is doubt as to whether she existed as she doesn't appear in any primary accounts of the Genpei war. She only appears in the epic "The tale of the Heike". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomoe Gozen has received more than 1,263,879 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Tomoe Gozen is the 1,907th most popular politician (up from 2,108th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Japan (up from 82nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Politician.

Tomoe Gozen is a female samurai from the Heian period of Japan. She is most famous for her role in the Battle of Awazu, where she is said to have slain 300 soldiers single-handedly.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tomoe Gozen ranks 1,907 out of 19,576. Before her are Abdurrahman Wahid, Alexander Jagiellon, Al-Adil I, Alfonso VIII of Castile, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, and Zhengde Emperor. After her are Babrak Karmal, Andrey Vyshinsky, Joko Widodo, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Ptolemy XI Alexander II, and Pescennius Niger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1157, Tomoe Gozen ranks 2. Before her is Richard I of England. After her are Alfonso II of Aragon, Leopold V, Duke of Austria, Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders, Alexander Neckam, and Eystein Meyla. Among people deceased in 1247, Tomoe Gozen ranks 1. After her are Konrad I of Masovia, Henry Raspe, Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg, Armand de Périgord, Henry IV, Duke of Limburg, Neidhart von Reuental, Richard de Bures, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, and Agafia of Rus.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomoe Gozen ranks 78 out of 6,245. Before her are Shirō Ishii (1892), Date Masamune (1567), Sonny Chiba (1939), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Utamaro (1753), and Dōgen (1200). After her are Nichiren (1222), Emperor Annei (-577), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Yoshihide Suga (1948), and Kiichiro Toyoda (1894).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Tomoe Gozen ranks 20. Before her are Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Koxinga (1624), Emperor Suizei (-669), Fumio Kishida (1957), and Uesugi Kenshin (1530). After her are Emperor Annei (-577), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Himiko (175), Emperor Itoku (-553), Prince Shōtoku (574), and Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740).

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