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With Nobunaga's death and the defeat of his forces, Yami no Daimyō assumes complete control of the land. Twenty years later, Yasuke tries to put his storied past as a legendary ronin known as the "Black Samurai" behind him and retires as a recluse boatman named Yassan at a remote village. He encounters a singer at a local bar named Ichika and ...
[2] [6] [13] The Akechi forces lifted the siege around 8:00 a.m. [4] Meanwhile, Oda Nobutada, who was at Myōkaku-ji Temple, received news of Mitsuhide's rebellion and attempted to go to Honnō-ji Temple to rescue his father. However, just as he was leaving the temple, Murai Sadakatsu and his sons rushed in and stopped him. Murai said that ...
Yasuke is a character introduced in the upcoming 2025 action role-playing game Assassin's Creed Shadows. A former African slave, he arrives in Japan as the bodyguard of Catholic Jesuit missionaries. Upon meeting Oda Nobunaga , the ruler takes Yasuke into his service and has him trained to be a samurai .
Yasuke appears in the 2005 to 2017 manga series Hyouge Mono. Yasuke is featured in the 2016 to 2020 manga The Man Who Killed Nobunaga. Yasuke appears in the 2017 game Nioh, where he is manipulated by Edward Kelley into helping revive Oda Nobunaga, believing the latter can finally grant him the title of samurai. After William defeats him, Yasuke ...
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 ...
The betrayal results in the death of Nobunaga, creating a power vacuum in Japan. One of Nobunaga's loyal generals, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, quickly fights and defeats Mitsuhide in the Battle of Yamazaki that results in Mitsuhide's death. Hideyoshi quickly sets out to eliminate Nobunaga's most loyal followers in order to seize authority over Nobunaga ...
Shinchō Kōki is an indispensable historical book when talking about Oda Nobunaga. The life of Nobunaga, one of the most well-known figures in Japanese history, has been adapted into novels, manga, TV dramas, films, and video games many times in the past, and most of his life and episodes depicted in them are based on this book. [1] [2]
In early 1552, barely several months after his father's death, one of Oda's senior retainers, Yamaguchi Noritsugu and his son Yamaguchi Noriyoshi defected to the Imagawa clan. In response, Nobunaga attacked Noritsugu, but was defeated by Noriyoshi's forces at the Battle of Akatsuka ; he retreated and left contested lands in eastern Owari under ...