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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 ...
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.
At the end of the day, my point is not that "Yasuke should be named a Samurai", my point is merely that there is a number of publications that list Yasuke as a Samurai, and there is a modern understanding that Yasuke was a Samurai which does not seem to be contended as nobody has furnished any secondary sources conclusively arguing that Yasuke ...
Others accused the fans who were criticizing the game of racism, pointing out that Yasuke is a historical figure. “With the new Assassin’s Creed game main character being black, the racists ...
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.
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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.
The commissioner of the New York Police Department said there are "no specific credible threats" to the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.