Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says - Kotaku In Action 2

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says (archive.ph)

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– 8BitArchitect 38 points 122 days ago +38 / -0

"Women were samurai, except none of them were warriors, and we won't show you any pictures of female samurai."

Summary of the article for those who have trouble with the archive or don't want to click through.

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– BandageBandolier 23 points 122 days ago +23 / -0

Without even touching the article I'm putting an 80% bet it's a deliberate translation error mixing up another noble title so they can call the samurai's wives "samurai"

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– Mpetey123 [S] 26 points 122 days ago +26 / -0

They are saying Samurai became an elite bureaucratic class and women performed certain duties in the bureaucracy