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4	The ''Tomoe Gozen Saga'' is a fantasy trilogy set in an alternate-reality Japan referred to as Naipon.
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6	The title character is the legendary 12th century lady samurai Tomoe Gozen.
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8	The trilogy's individual titles are:
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10	** ''Tomoe Gozen'' (later retitled ''The Disfavored Hero'')
11	** ''The Golden Naginata''
12	** ''Thousand Shrine Warrior''
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15	!!The ''Tomoe Gozen Saga'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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17	* AdaptationalSexuality: Salmonson's Gozen is rather openly bisexual and in love with her liege lady.
18	* EscapedFromHell: Within the first thirty pages of the first book, Tomoe dies and fights her way back up from Yomi.
19	* FeministFantasy: Salmonson is a noted feminist author, and this was probably the first western-published work to feature a female samurai.
20	* FullFrontalAssault: Tomoe is naked as she fights her way out of Yomi.
21	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted - Tomoe initially uses Chinese butterfly swords.
22	* LadyOfWar: Tomoe.
23	* 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.
24	* OneWomanArmy: Early in the first book, Tomoe defeats a large force attacking her lord's lands almost single-handedly.
25	* 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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