Around the year 1579 an African of Mozambican origin arrived in Japan in the services of an Italian Jesuit, against his will of course. His name was Yasuke, born between 1555 and 1566, and he soon caught the attention of the Japanese for the color of his black skin. One of these admirers would change his life and Japan forever: His name was Oda Nobunaga. This land lord was impressed by Yasuke’s height, which was considered a giant compared to the average Japanese of the time, and recruited him to be his bodyguard.
When Yasuke became a samurai in 1581, his legend soon spread that he was an invincible giant warrior with the strength of ten men. He possessed two swords, which he wielded like no other, and learned to speak Japanese fluently. It earned an anime series on Netflix in its honor. He returned to serve the Jesuits and nothing is known about his final fate.
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23 Comments
They should do a movie about this guy
I bet he stole his first katana
He was a legendary until his history cannot be hidden anymore in Japan.
The tale of Yasuke still remains much of a mystery till today, as far as i'm concerned there's lots of debate whether Yasuke was even strong to begin with, Most articles you'd find are mostly with the narrative that states that he was tall and dark, some of them includes that Oda was amazed by yasuke's strength having it described to be the strength of 10 men and some other articles including Yasuke's official wikipedia does not include that sort of information, I feel so sad that we may never know how Yasuke performed as a samurai itself in battles so a man can only dream 🙁
What’s the Netflix series called?
The Yasuke – Black Ronin game on iOS is the shit
Don't expect the show to be historically accurate, I highly doubt that there were wizards and giant robots that run on dark magic back during that time period. Or The fact that Oda was a tyrant that massacred whole clans All the way down to the children. Not bringing yasuke's honor into question, a samurai's duty is to his Lord. That might be why he left after Oda died.
There's no pictures of him lol, this happened way before the first picture was even taken
Your voice is very annoying.
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My only basis for this is hearing about this on social media. Is there any actual historical record of this? Damn interesting if true.
That voice though is 🤮
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I hate the anime
"10 men" 😂
He was not a Samurai he was made a Retainer and Bodyguard but was not a Samurai to be Samurai you need to be born a samurai or in some very rare circumstances a soldier can be granted Samurai status by his lord but such actions are incredibly rare
They are cooler and more intriguing people like yasuke but people really go crazy over fictional characters like black panther
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Oda and the rest of the Japanese thought he was a blessing from the gods ,oba at first thought he was a god or a demon guardian because those deities they believe in had black skin and the statues of them where black and the Japanese ( most ) never seen someone of that dark of skin or someone with the height and build of yuske