Yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man of African origin who served as a kashin (家臣, retainer) under the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga. Some scholars categorize him as a samurai, for which he has become of interest in popular culture.
In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of the Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India. Yasuke was one of the several Africans to have come with the Portuguese to Japan during the Nanban trade and is thought by some to have been the first African that Nobunaga had ever seen. He was also present during the Honnō-ji Incident, the forced suicide of Nobunaga at the hands of his general Akechi Mitsuhide on 21 June 1582.
Here’s the interview with Thomas Lockley. He is the author of the book, ‘African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan’.
The Anime at the end was a pilot episode of Afro Samurai :
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Sources :
https://time.com/6039381/yasuke-black-samurai-true-story/
The Real Yasuke Is Far More Interesting Than His Netflix Show
https://www.aaihs.org/the-significance-of-yasuke-the-black-samurai/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48542673
Timestamps
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00:00 – Introduction
00:26 – Who Was Yasuke?
02:00 – Yasuke Meets Oda Nobunaga
03:52 – Yasuke Becomes a Full Samurai
05:13 – The Sumō Yūrakuzu Byōbu Painting
05:13 – How Nobunaga Died
07:06 – What Happened Afterwards
07:58 – Afro Samurai [Pilot]
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