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Yasuke is an original net animation (ONA) series loosely based on the historical figure of the same name, an African warrior who served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period of samurai conflict in 16th century Japan.
There are a plethora of sources which do not refer to Yasuke as a samurai, and a single academic book by Lopez-Vera and a handful of tertiary sources that do say Yasuke is a samurai. Even allowing for the argument that the sources don't explicitly say Yasuke wasn't a samurai, you are still left with a single academic source that says ...
Yasuke is the first known African to appear in Japanese historical records. Much of what is known about him is found in fragmentary accounts in the letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (信長公記, Nobunaga Official Chronicle), Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (松平家忠日記, Matsudaira Ietada Diary), Jean Crasset's Histoire de l ...
In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. has landed “The Color Purple” director Blitz Bazawule’s next project, which takes on the legendary Yasuke, an African warrior who became the first ...
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Notable work African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan (2019) Thomas Lockley (born 1978) is a British academic who is an associate professor of the College of Law of Nihon University , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and a visiting researcher for the SOAS University of London . [ 2 ]
There is a clear consensus that Yasuke should be represented in the article as a Samurai.While there was opposition to the suggestion, the opposition mostly boils down to the argument that Thomas Lockley's book is unreliable, and that the Lopez-Vera source is similarly unreliable on the basis that the Lopez-Vera publication does not use in-text citations.
Samurai 7 is not a historical anime at all but a reimagined take on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai with mechs. Sengoku Basara is an exaggerated take on Sengoku era history but tone isn't the same especially the first series. Rurouni Kenshin is a historical anime with fictional characters but not anything like Yasuke's take. There are other period ...