{"id":1486211,"date":"2023-01-18T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/1486211\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:47:05","slug":"yasuke-the-first-foreign-samurai-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/1486211\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasuke the first foreign samurai #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2bZSH49AsBo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nYasuke the first foreign Samurai<\/p>\n<p>According to Japanese legend, Yasuke was an African born man who is believed to have travelled to Japan in 1579 with an Italian priest as part of an inspection tour.<\/p>\n<p>He quickly found his way into the employ of Oda Nobunaga, A powerful 16th Century Japanese feudal lord who was the first of the three unifiers of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>At the time the Japanese people had probably never laid eyes on an African man and it caused quite a sensation. Not only because of his skin colour but because he was reported to be 6\u201d2 in height when at the time the average Japanese male was only 5\u201d2.<\/p>\n<p>Yasuke quickly mastered the Japanese language and became a very powerful Samurai serving in many battles. <\/p>\n<p>After Oda Nobunaga was betrayed and defeated in battle he asked Yasuke to take his head and sword back to his son after he had performed seppuku, A great honour for Yasuke. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Yasuke\u2019s story ends in 1582 when he disappears from the history books all together. Reports say he was exiled and returned to Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasuke the first foreign Samurai According to Japanese legend, Yasuke was an African born man who is believed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1486212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[21351,57641,513801,584106,22861,94561,584105,119844,584100,582395,584117,24099,246464,584114,69346,130760,584120,584108,584109,584119,584112,584102,584113,584099,5554,33314,584118,188941,584107,316139,584116,33313,3958,79838,25441,584104,481847,584115,366874,295001,584101,404743,20150,11212,21506,110795,74402,584110,584111,499284,11201,11200,584103,389],"class_list":{"0":"post-1486211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-odanobunaga","9":"tag-youtubeshorts","10":"tag-513801","11":"tag-16thcentury","12":"tag-22861","13":"tag-94561","14":"tag-abriefhistory","15":"tag-african","16":"tag-africansamurai","17":"tag-battles","18":"tag-betrayed","19":"tag-black","20":"tag-blacksamurai","21":"tag-blackskin","22":"tag-brown","23":"tag-capital","24":"tag-disappeared","25":"tag-employ","26":"tag-employed","27":"tag-exiled","28":"tag-feudal","29":"tag-feudaljapan","30":"tag-feudallord","31":"tag-firstforeignsamurai","32":"tag-history","33":"tag-honor","34":"tag-honour","35":"tag-italian","36":"tag-italianpriest","37":"tag-japanesehistory","38":"tag-japaneselanguage","39":"tag-katana","40":"tag-kyoto","41":"tag-language","42":"tag-legend","43":"tag-legendofyasuke","44":"tag-myth","45":"tag-powerful","46":"tag-priest","47":"tag-samuraiwarrior","48":"tag-sengokuperiod","49":"tag-sensation","50":"tag-seppuku","51":"tag-shogun","52":"tag-shorts","53":"tag-sword","54":"tag-tall","55":"tag-unified","56":"tag-unifiers","57":"tag-warlord","58":"tag-yasuke","59":"tag-yasuke-","60":"tag-yasukeanime","61":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}