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Naginatas and George Lucas (was Re: Making Pikes)
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:35:57 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Tony A. Rowe writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Eric Joslin writes:
> > As an aside, Naginata are often disparaginly referred to as a "woman's
> weapon",
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> Prior to the Edo period, the Naginata was a weapon used on the battlefields by
> samurai. The Edo period was relatively peaceful, and women of samurai • families
> were trained with the Naginata. This is where the tradition of women using
> the Naginata came from.
I've done some research and found some more information. I quote the
following:
Women, usually of high-rank, were allowed an education and training in martial
arts. It was not considered unusual for clan princesses to be taught sword
fighting alongside their brothers.
One Japanese legend concerns Princess Tsuru, the daughter of the Ii clan lord
during the Edo period, which roughly coincided with the Renaissance in Europe.
Princess Tsuru was a skilled martial artist, specializing in a weapon called
the naginata, a long spear-like weapon that ended in an blade similar to an
axe. Tsuru publically called for the training of women in martial arts, and was
said to have taught these skills. The legend says that eventually Tsuru married
the Shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, but only after initially refusing to
do so because she didn’t want to be a token in a political alliance between her
family and the Shogun.
I got this from a great page on Echo Station dealing with Japanese influences
on George Lucas in the making of the Star Wars films. If you want to check it
out, go to:
http://www.yavin.net/features/japanese.htm
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