Is there a specific term that refers to female sword fighting?


The "Lonely Planet Tokyo" iPhone app describes female sword fighting as a
bygone form of male entertainment:

> Surprisingly, striptease almost failed to catch on due to the popularity of
> a rival form of risqué entertainment, namely female sword fighting (to
> modern ears, the idea of scantily clad jousting females might sound a bit
> strange, but at the time it was the height of erotic entertainment).

Is there a Japanese term that refers to this phenomenon, as opposed to
legitimate fighters who just happen to be female?

I tried googling and had no luck, but I heard from "worst jobs in history"
that it was a form of entertainment in the United Kingdom.




Perhaps [女剣劇](http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A5%B3%E5%89%A3%E5%8A%87)? It was
apparently popular in the early Showa period; does that correspond to "at the
time" in the part you quote?

(How I found this: I figured that it would probably be a word for sword-
fighting with "female" attached as a modifier, so that the first two
characters had a good chance of being "女剣". When I searched for that
combination, I found 女剣劇.)

