Yasuke was the world’s first Black samurai.
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When a 6-foot-tall African slave landed in Japan, he stuck out like a sore thumb. People lost all modesty and nearly caused a stampede trying to get a closer look. Such a sight was so foreign in Kyoto.
— he was one of the first Africans to ever arrive on the island — that a powerful Japanese warlord ordered him to remove his clothes while a flock of servants tried to scrub the “black ink” off his skin.
Yasuke was in the service of the Japanese warlord Nobunaga Oda for a while.
His real name was "Yasufe" and hailed from the Makua tribe of Mozambique. He arrived in Japan in 1579 as a servant of the Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano.
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When a 6-foot-tall African slave landed in Japan, he stuck out like a sore thumb. People lost all modesty and nearly caused a stampede trying to get a closer look. Such a sight was so foreign in Kyoto.
— he was one of the first Africans to ever arrive on the island — that a powerful Japanese warlord ordered him to remove his clothes while a flock of servants tried to scrub the “black ink” off his skin.
Yasuke was in the service of the Japanese warlord Nobunaga Oda for a while.
His real name was "Yasufe" and hailed from the Makua tribe of Mozambique. He arrived in Japan in 1579 as a servant of the Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. #African
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ChileoNation
Tessa_White:
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ChileoNation
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Tessa_White
@jahto_toms:
Nope i don't think so
jahto_toms:
there is a lie about his real origin though
jahto_toms
there is a lie about his real origin though
Romuald .Y. Issah
The gids of our ancestors
Pretty_Jessy
wow
Tessa_White
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Kingasa1:
interesting
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