History Manga / LadySnowblood

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Done by Okono Fujishima.

* FanDisservice: Okono's "''[[ADateWithRosiePalms masunoura]]''" mentioned above.

* DeathBySex: A complicated version, where Oyuki poses as a Buddhist nun to get close to a girl suffering from tuberculosis, who she introduces to the joys of lesbian sex to speed up her death (losing sweat while ill is a very bad idea), so that she can get her hands on the death registers after the funeral. Perhaps feeling a rare twinge of conscience at doing this to a total innocent, Oyuki justifies this to herself as [[LetThemDieHappy Letting Her Die Happy]].

* OutWithABang: Blackmailer Genjiro was already dying, but Oyuki allowed him to have intercrural sex with her in order to fulfill his LastRequest.

* DeathBySex: A complicated version, where Oyuki poses as a Buddhist nun to get close to a girl suffering from tuberculosis, who she introduces to the joys of lesbian sex to speed up her death (losing sweat while ill is a very bad idea), so that she can get her hands on the death registers after the funeral.
** Perhaps feeling a rare twinge of conscience at doing this to a total innocent, Oyuki justifies this to herself as [[LetThemDieHappy Letting Her Die Happy]].

* TrainingFromHell: From the priest who trained her as an assassin.
** Her pickpocketing training as well.

* IllGirl: One of Oyuki's plots involves seducing one.

* NoWomansLand: Seriously, women can't leave the house without being preyed on, threatened with violence, or sold into sexual slavery.

* FairytaleMotifs: The Japanese title, ''Shurayuki-hime,'' is a pun on the Japanese name of [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White,]] ''Shirayuki-hime'' (literally, "Princess Snow-White"). ''Shura'' can be translated as "conflict."

* FullFrontalAssault: Oyuki fights naked more than a few times.

->"I am a vehicle of retribution who roams in search of my mother's sworn enemies."

* DeathBySex: A complicated version, where Oyuki poses as a Buddhist nun to get close to a girl suffering from tuberculosis, who she introduces to the joys of LesYay to speed up her death (losing sweat is a very bad idea), so that she can get her hands on the death registers after the funeral.
** Perhaps feeling a rare twinge of conscience at doing this to a total innocent, Oyuki justifies this to herself as [[LetThemDieHappy Let Her Die Happy]].
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Oyuki gets more than her fair share of indecent proposals from women, and she's [[LesYay quite happy to oblige]].

** At first she seems to be a FemmeFatale, but if you look closely she is a real [[TheVamp Vamp]]. Ok most people she kills deserve their demise, but she [[MoralEventHorizon went too far]] when she [[spoiler: forced a chauffeur to rape his employer's daughter, then killed the girl in order to blackmail the hapless man into becoming an accomplice to another murder. Although she promised to let him go free, she kills him anyway.]]

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: "[[spoiler:Toichi Haichi]]" the secret weapon of a brothel success.
* GroinAttack: "Unveiling of a Pretty Woman"

* AllMenArePerverts: Most of the male population try to rape Oyuki a some point. If it isn't Oyuki, then its some other poor woman.

* AuthorAvatar: Gaikotsu Miyahara. He ''actually'' writes Oyuki's story down as she progresses. Try not to think about it too much: the FourthWall seems to warp recursively around this guy.

* {{Bifauxnen}}: The [[spoiler: corrupt photographer]]
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Some of the motivations of the clients when hiring her were questionable at best. And some of her allies are either part of a gang or a scheming trickster like Gaikotsu Miyahara the Wanderer. Also how she deals with Hanzo Takemura.

* FairytaleMotifs: The Japanese title, ''Shurayuki-hime,'' is a pun on the Japanese name of [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White,]] ''Shirayuki-hime'' (literally, "Princess Snow-White").

* FramingTheGuiltyParty: A gang of rickshaws kidnaps isolated women and sells them to brothels. Oyuki manages to persuade them to make beautiful lacquered paintings on their rickshaws, which generates massive publicity. Then she secretly puts a portrait of the Emperor on one, leading to the gang's arrest and execution.

* AuthorAvatar: Gaikotsu Miyahara. He ''actually'' writes Oyuri's story down as she progresses. Try not to think about it too much: the FourthWall seems to warp recursively around this guy.

-->'''Kiku of Tajire:''' You'll have to [[TrainingFromHell go through severe training. You'll have to practice until you bleed everyday]] and still it'll take a year before you get a hang of it

* PetTheDog: Oyuki gets several moments, such as generously sparing a thieving employee from being punished Auntie Kiku, and saving [[spoiler:her victim's daughter from being forced into a life of prostitution]] in the last chapter.
* PsychoLesbian: Quite a few, resulting in GirlOnGirlIsHot scenes. Out of four lesbian encounters Oyuki has on-screen only one of them was purely for mutual pleasure with no darker purpose.

The manga itself was popular enough to be adapted later into a 1973 live-action film of the same name directed by Toshiya Fujita, starring Meiko Kaji as Oyuki. The film created a cult following, resulting in a sequel, ''Film/LadySnowblood2LoveSongOfVengeance''. Quentin Tarantino was inspired by the film, which resulted in the creation of ''Film/KillBill''. The film has its own page [[Film/LadySnowblood here]].

* DeathBySex: A complicated version, where Oyuki poses as a Buddhist nun to get close to a tuberculosic girl, who she introduces to the joys of LesYay to speed up her death (losing sweat is a very bad idea), so that she can get her hands on the death registers after the funeral.