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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.
On its website, Ubisoft said that creators decided to include Yasuke in the game because they wanted a samurai character whose story was “open-ended enough to allow for creativity,” adding ...
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 is the protagonist of the eponymous Netflix ONA series Yasuke, released in 2021. Koei Tecmo's 2021 game, Samurai Warriors 5, adds Yasuke as a playable character. It has been claimed that the Afro Samurai franchise is based on Yasuke. [17] Yasuke is the main protagonist Assassin's Creed Shadows game.
In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. has landed “The Color Purple” director Blitz Bazawule’s next project, which takes on the legendary Yasuke, an African warrior who became the first ...
The director of “The Color Purple” is set to helm the tentatively titled “Black Samurai” for Warner Bros., which tells the story of an African warrior who became the first Black samurai ...
Yasuke: English Wikipedia Japanese Wikipedia: May 15, 2024: Unclear Following the announcement of Yasuke as a playable character in the video game Assassin's Creed Shadows, editors conflicted on if the historical Yasuke was ever granted samurai status. — [44] [45] Nuseirat rescue and massacre: English Wikipedia: June 8, 2024: Unclear
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 ...