This inquiry project is modeled on the Stanford History Education Group (now the Digital Inquiry Group)'s model for historical thinking, using sourcing, context, corroboration, and close reading in order to draw historical conclusions. The assignment should be used when students have already studied the basics of medieval Japan, specifically the training and values of the samurai. At its center is Tomoe Gozen, an onna-musha (“warrior woman”) from the Heian period (794-1185 CE), and one of the be