Japan: Lady Hangaku (Hangaku Gozen). Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), c. 1885. Hangaku Gozen was a female warrior samurai, or onna-bugeisha, one of the relatively few Japanese warrior women commonly known in history or classical literature. She lived at the end of the Heian and the beginning of the Kamakura periods. Daughter of a warrior named Jo Sukekuni, she was sister of Sukenaga and Sukemoto. The Jo were warriors, allies of the Taira clan, in Echigo Province (present-day Niigata Prefecture). They were defeated in the Genpei Wars, losing much of their power.