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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 ...
Hi there. Tre Watson, B.A. Asian studies, focus on Japanese history. Retainers were still samurai. Yasuke was favored by Nobunaga and was by his side until the Honnouji incident, where he ran to ...
This interesting view is sadly ignore din this article, together with Lockney's actual thesis, that Yasuke just pretended to be a slave, because some editors want to hide Yasuke's slavery background in favour for a speculated samurai status of him in line with some modern entertainment views, what Yasuke would have to be, to not make their ...
Japanese and English articles that are unsure if Yasuke is a samurai, but say that he was like one:[][][] Note the first one says: However, the TBS television program "Hitachi World Mysteries Discovered!", which aired on June 8, 2013, featured a special called "Chase the Black Samurai at Honnoji Temple during Nobunaga's Final Moments!", and a ...
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: 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 ...
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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.