1579 Yasuke

The story of the first foreigner and the only black man in Japan to ever achieve the title of Samurai.

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References

https://time.com/6039381/yasuke-black-samurai-true-story/

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48542673

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/02/the-real-yasuke-is-far-more-interesting-than-his-netflix-show/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oda-Nobunaga

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/19/asia/black-samurai-yasuke-africa-japan-intl/index.html

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/yasuke-1555/

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-bushido-195302

 https://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/enteredo_8.html

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/world-cultures/discovering-japan/discovering-japan/samurai-armour/

 

 

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