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Yasuke (Japanese: 弥助 / 弥介, Japanese pronunciation:) was a man of African origin who served as a samurai to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident.
Jul 16, 2024 · Yasuke (born c. 1555, Eastern Africa) was a valet and bodyguard of the Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano who rose to become a member of the inner circle of the warlord Oda Nobunaga, Japan’s first “great unifier.”
Jan 10, 2023 · Yasuke was an African warrior in the employ of Nobunaga, a powerful feudal lord known as the “Great Unifier,” during Japan’s Sengoku period. The first Black samurai, he...
Feb 13, 2021 · An Instagram post correctly cited a BBC News piece about an African samurai named Yasuke. He arrived in Japan almost 500 years ago as a servant to Jesuit missionaries and quickly ingratiated ...
Sep 17, 2020 · Described by Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman as “one of history’s best-kept secrets,” Yasuke is believed to be the only person of African ancestry to have reached the rank of samurai. He originally arrived on Japanese shores in 1579 as a bodyguard to Alessandro Valignano who’d been appointed to inspect the Jesuit missions in the ...
Apr 30, 2021 · But Yasuke was a real-life Black samurai who served under Oda Nobunaga, one of the most important feudal lords in Japanese history and a unifier of the country.
Oct 13, 2019 · Known as Yasuke, the man was a warrior who reached the rank of samurai under the rule of Oda Nobunaga - a powerful 16th Century Japanese feudal lord who was the first of the...
Yasuke: Created by Lesean Thomas. With LaKeith Stanfield, Maya Tanida, William Christopher Stephens, Darren Criss. He came from Africa and fought alongside a mighty feudal lord in brutal 16th century Japan. They called him the Black Samurai, and he became a legend.
May 17, 2024 · Yasuke was a man of African origin who arrived in Japan in the late 16th century, and is widely held to have been the first and only black samurai (though not the only foreign samurai, lest we forget William Adams, the inspiration for Shōgun's John Blackthorne).
A peaceful boatman once known as the Black Samurai is pulled back into conflict when he takes a little girl with mysterious powers under his wing. Watch trailers & learn more.
