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- We rate this claim TRUE, based on our research. 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 himself in society. At least one movie about Yasuke's life is planned for production.
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Yasuke (Japanese: 弥助 / 弥介, pronounced) was a man of African origin who served as a samurai [2] [3] [4] to Oda Nobunaga between 1581 and 1582. There are few historical documents on Yasuke. From the fragmentary accounts, Yasuke first arrived in Japan in the service of Jesuit Alessandro Valignano.
4 days ago · The real history of Yasuke, Japan’s first Black samurai. This 17th-century folding screen allegedly depicts Yasuke, the African warrior who served under the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga. As one...
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Not much is known about Yasuke’s early life. Some historians speculate he was born in Mozambique, Ethiopia or Nigeria. Thomas Lockley, co-author of African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, says it’s possible Yasuke was enslaved and trafficked as a child but believes he was a free man by the time he met A...
Yasuke joined Nobunaga during the last months of the feudal lord’s unification campaign. “His strategy was to impose peace by force of arms,” Lockley says. “He would quite happily wipe out 10,000 people if he thought it would forward the aims of peace.” Though Nobunaga was close to completing his goal of consolidating control of Japan, his efforts ...
Despite the lack of concrete information about Yasuke, the samurai’s life has inspired a range of adaptations. In 1968, Japanese author Kurusu Yoshio published Kuro-suke, a children’s book that dramatizes Yasuke’s story. More recent titles about the warrior include Lockley’s 2019 book, co-written with Geoffrey Girard, and Jamal Turner’s 2020 childr...
Feb 13, 2021 · Yasuke — likely a Japanese stylized version of "Yasufe", according to Jeff Taylor, author of "Yasuke (African Samurai): The Life and Legend of Japan's First African Samurai" — arrived in Japan in...
May 19, 2019 · Today, Yasuke’s legacy as the world’s first African samurai is well known in Japan, spawning everything from prize-winning children’s books to a manga series titled “Afro Samurai.” And his...
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.
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).
