Onna-bugeisha

This was originally an oil painting, but I was very displeased with the sheen of it, and the photograph I took of it showed a lot of undesired reflection, so I had to do a lot of digital touching up. This was meant to be a sort of experiment as well, as I wanted to add patterns of Japanese dragons and flowers with a gold pen, which I decided would be superficial in the end, as I thought it would distract from the main subject.

Onna-bugeisha is a term I just learned when searching for a title. It means in Japanese "woman-warrior", and I couldn't have asked for a more fitting title.