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The ''Tomoe Gozen Saga'' is a fantasy trilogy set in an alternate-reality Japan referred to as Naipon. The title character is the legendary 12th century lady samurai Tomoe Gozen. The trilogy's individual titles are ''Tomoe Gozen'' (later retitled ''The Disfavored Hero''), ''The Golden Naginata'', and ''Thousand Shrine Warrior''

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The ''Tomoe Gozen Saga'' is a fantasy trilogy set in an alternate-reality Japan referred to as Naipon. Naipon.

The title character is the legendary 12th century lady samurai Tomoe Gozen. Gozen.

The trilogy's individual titles are are:

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''Tomoe Gozen'' (later retitled ''The Disfavored Hero''), Hero'')
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''The Golden Naginata'', and Naginata''
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''Thousand Shrine Warrior''
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: In ''The Golden Naginata'', Tomoe is reunited with [[spoiler: her former comrade Goro, who has declared revenge, blaming her for his forced retirement.]]

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: In ''The Golden Naginata'', Tomoe is reunited with [[spoiler: her former comrade Goro, who has declared revenge, blaming her for his forced retirement.]]]]

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* AdaptationalSexuality: Salmonson's Gozen is [[BadassGay rather openly bisexual]] and in love with her liege lady.

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* AdaptationalSexuality: Salmonson's Gozen is [[BadassGay rather openly bisexual]] bisexual and in love with her liege lady.
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* BodyguardRomance: Tomoe and her liege Toshima.
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* OneWomanArmy: Early in the first book, Tomoe defeats a large force attacking her lord's lands almost single-handedly.

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* OneWomanArmy: Early in the first book, Tomoe defeats a large force attacking her lord's lands almost single-handedly.single-handedly.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: In ''The Golden Naginata'', Tomoe is reunited with [[spoiler: her former comrade Goro, who has declared revenge, blaming her for his forced retirement.]]

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* BodyguardRomance: Tomoe and her liege Toshima.



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* NaginatasAreFeminine: Tomoe for a time wields a magical naginata which was in turn originally wielded by another legendary female warrior, was guarded by a female monster, and which she [[NamedWeapons names]] Inazuma-hime, or Princess Lightning. Though, to be fair, Tomoe also wields many different weapons over the course of the series.
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* FightInTheNude: Tomoe is naked as she fights her way out of Yomi.

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* FightInTheNude: FullFrontalAssault: Tomoe is naked as she fights her way out of Yomi.



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She displays genuine interest in a male character in the second book, although it doesn't end well. And Toshima isn't a geisha.


* AdaptationalSexuality: Salmonson's Gozen is a [[BadassGay lesbian,]] in love a with a {{Geisha}}.

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* AdaptationalSexuality: Salmonson's Gozen is a [[BadassGay lesbian,]] rather openly bisexual]] and in love a with a {{Geisha}}.her liege lady.

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* EscapedFromHell: Within the first thirty pages of the first book, Tomoe dies and fights her way back up from Yomi.



* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Within the first thirty pages of the first book, Tomoe dies and fights her way back up from Yomi.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Salmonson's Gozen is a [[BadassGay lesbian,]] in love a with a ''geisha.''

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* AdaptationalSexuality: Salmonson's Gozen is a [[BadassGay lesbian,]] in love a with a ''geisha.''{{Geisha}}.
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The ''Tomoe Gozen Saga'' is a fantasy trilogy set in an alternate-reality Japan referred to as Naipon. The title character is the legendary 12th century lady samurai Tomoe Gozen. The trilogy's individual titles are ''Tomoe Gozen'' (later retitled ''The Disfavored Hero''), ''The Golden Naginata'', and ''Thousand Shrine Warrior''

!!The ''Tomoe Gozen Saga'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* FeministFantasy: Salmonson is a noted feminist author, and this was probably the first western-published work to feature a female samurai.
* FightInTheNude: Tomoe is naked as she fights her way out of Yomi.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted - Tomoe initially uses Chinese butterfly swords.
* LadyOfWar: Tomoe
* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Within the first thirty pages of the first book, Tomoe dies and fights her way back up from Yomi.
* OneWomanArmy: Early in the first book, Tomoe defeats a large force attacking her lord's lands almost single-handedly.

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