Watanabe’s wife was not to trifle with

Watanabe's wife with a child on her back and two severed heads at her feet from Yoshitoshi Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers

“Watanabe’s wife with a child on her back and two severed heads at her feet” from Taiso Yoshitoshi’s Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers (1874).

The weapon in her capable hands is a naginata.

More Japanese woodblock art here.

And female use of the naginata here

Further, do not pick a fight with a wife of Watanabe.

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