Yasuke
16th-century African retainer of Oda Nobunaga
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- Fame60.8
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- Religious Figures rank#174
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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.
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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.
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