On 3 lists:

  • http://japanese-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/womens_status_in_japan, “Women’s Status in Medieval Japan: Female Marriage and Labour in Japan’s 14th-17th Centuries.”
  • www.womeninworldhistory.com/sample-08.html – on women warriors

On 2 lists:

  • www2.gol.com/users/friedman/writings/p1.html, “The Changing Roles of Women in Japanese Society,”
  • http://www.koryu.com/library/wwj1.html – on women warriors.

On one list:

  • http://asianhistory.about.com/od/imagegalleries/ss/samuraiwomen.htm – female Samurai.
  • http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/JAPAN.html – compilation of female writers from Japan
  • http://homepages.which.net/~james.phillips/hist.htm female wrestlers in Japan
  • http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art153.asp – brief but informative reality of what exactly a Geisha is, and how their were different “ranks” among them, and how this was, in many ways, far from the ideal life for a young Japanese girl.
  • http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art24550.asp female samurai rule in ancient Japan.
  • http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/03womens_studies_kline.html – Resources in Japanese Women’s History.
  • http://www.immortalgeisha.com
  • http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/fukusyoku/kosode/50.htm – ancient hairstyles of Japanese Women,
  • http://www.samurai-archives.com/women.html – specific women famous in Japanese history. It covers their roles in history and society.
  • http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/WOMEN.HTM – Women and Women’s Communities in Ancient Japan
  • www.iop.or.jp/0313/kurihara.pdf, “A History of Women in Japanese Buddhism: Niceren’s Perspectives on the Enlightenment of Women,” told of how Buddhism helped women, but also injured them by labeling women “impure.”