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Yasuke was not born into a samurai clan. Yasuke was a slave brought to Japan and given to Nobunaga by missionaries. Therefore, any foreigners who want to claim that Yasuke was a samurai historically must provide valid historical sources of how and when Yasuke became a free man first and then how and when he became a samurai.
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 sources on Yasuke don't give their definition of samurai, simply saying that Yasuke qualifies as a "samurai" because he was given a stipend, a house and a sword by his lord, served Nobunaga in a military capacity and was in a relatively close relationship with him as a member of his retinue.
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.
Yasuke (弥助) Voiced by: Jun Soejima [7] (Japanese); Lakeith Stanfield (English) Once a servant of Jesuits named Eusebio Ibrahimo Baloi and originally of Yao descent, he was named Yasuke upon becoming a samurai under Oda Nobunaga, after which his skill and honor earned much of his Lord's favor, despite the discrimination for his skin and distrust for his foreign origin.
1 Lockley's article on Yasuke in Britannica. 14 comments. 2 Is Samurai a title? 13 comments. 3 ...
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Yasuke 弥助: Oda Nobunaga: He was given a stipend and a house by Oda Nobunaga. He fought during the Honnō-ji incident. [4] Hanseong, Joseon [5] (now South Korea) Kim Yeo-cheol (Kanji: 金如鐵) [6] Son of 金時省, civil officer of Joseon [6] 1592 [5] Wakita Naokata 脇田直賢 [5] Maeda Toshinaga→ Maeda Toshitsune [5] → Maeda ...