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The story of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro is recorded in the entry for June 785 (4th year of Enryaku) in the Shoku Nihongi.Tamuramaro's father, Sakanoue no Karitamaro, said that their ancestor, Achi no omi of the Yamatonoaya clan, was the great-grandson of Emperor Ling of the Later Han Dynasty, and that he had come from Daifang County with his companions after hearing that there was a sage in an ...
16th century painting of European traders and an African slave in Japan A black sumo wrestler, possibly Yasuke, in the 17th century. During the 16th century at the beginning of the Edo period, traders, particularly the Dutch and Portuguese brought Africans with them to Japan, in the form of slaves, servants and attendants.
Tetsuya Noguchi (野口哲哉, Noguchi Tetsuya, born 1980 in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese artist known for his images of samurai in modern everyday or comical situations. [ 1 ] Biography
Sword, crucifix, samurai robes, martyr's palm Justo Takayama Ukon ( ジュスト高山右近 ) , born Takayama Hikogorō ( 高山彦五郎 ) and also known as Dom Justo Takayama (c. 1552/1553 - 5 February 1615) was a Japanese Catholic daimyō and samurai during the Sengoku period that saw rampant anti-Catholic sentiment.
Afro Samurai was adapted into an anime miniseries and a sequel television film, Afro Samurai: Resurrection. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After the release of the anime series, Takashi Okazaki went back and recreated the original dōjinshi into a two-volume manga series which was released in the United States by Tor Books and Seven Seas Entertainment . [ 6 ]
“Blue Eye Samurai” is set to collect a trio of juried awards for achievement in animation–for character design, production design and storyboard–while vying for two competitive awards ...
Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ, Afuro Samurai, stylized as ΛFΓO SΛMUΓΛI) is a Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series written and illustrated by manga artist Takashi Okazaki. It was originally serialized irregularly in the avant-garde dōjinshi manga magazine Nou Nou Hau from November 1998 to September 2002.
This is a list of foreign-born people who became samurai in Japan. During the Edo period (1603–1868), some foreigners in Japan were granted privileges associated with samurai, including fiefs or stipends and the right to carry two swords.