# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasuke
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:51:20.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasuke"
name: "Yasuke"
slug: "yasuke"
description: "An African man who became a samurai in feudal Japan — not legend, documented fact. For one year he carried a sword in the service of Oda Nobunaga, the warlord who was unifying the country, until the night his lord died by betrayal."
tagline: "16th-century African retainer of Oda Nobunaga"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rinpa_style_ink-stone_box_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1555"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           60.82
  momentum:             6.884828185100391
  historical:           23.5188
  currentAttention:     24.84227867532808
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 174
tags:
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  - name: "Japan"
    slug: "japan"
  - name: "Asia"
    slug: "asia"
  - name: "Early Modern Era"
    slug: "early-modern-era"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "야스케"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Yasuke arrived in Japan in 1581 with Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. Nobunaga, curious to see a black man, summoned him — then kept him. The warlord gave him a name, a sword, a house, and a stipend: the markers of samurai rank. Yasuke stayed at Nobunaga's side through 1582, fighting at the Honnō-ji Incident when assassins struck and through the death of Nobunaga's son Oda Nobutada. After the bloodshed, he was returned to the Jesuits. No record survives of what came next.