Humankind: Sheeeeeeeeit. We waz japanese?
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Doesn't your avatar in humankind just take on the manner of dress of whatever culture you adopt as the game progresses?
Interesting fact:
There actually WAS one black samurai.
A man from Mozambique accompanied a Jesuit missionary to Japan in the 16th century. Oda Nobunaga heard of a very strong dark skinned man in his territory and recruited him to fight for him. Oda eventually gave him the name Yasuke and elevated him to Samurai.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
Nobunaga was... odd.
He was also really into using Ashigaru. Lots and lots of Ashigaru. He was sort of the Japanese version of Oliver Cromwell.
Japanese historians wrote about him in the 19th century.
Here's a slightly easier to read source from the 1920's...
U want translation? Fuk you, here tool, read 4 self.
No seriously, I'm translating Five Star Monogatari, I don't have time.
Technically he was someone of at least high trust since Nobunaga made him his weapon bearer, meaning 'here hold my sword and wakazashi while I do this thing or ride in this palanquin' which a Daimyo wouldn't hand to just anyone his personal weapons.
He's probably historically accurate, he is believed to be from Mozambique or Sudan. Yasuke was first mentioned in the text of the Shinchō-ki (信長記) owned by Sonkeikaku Bunko (尊経閣文庫), the archives of the Maeda clan. According to this, the black man named Yasuke (弥助) was given his own residence and a short, ceremonial katana by Nobunaga. Nobunaga also assigned him the duty of weapon bearer, written in 1582 and mostly the chronicles the life of Oda Nobunaga. The compiled chronicle consists of 16 volumes and is considered by historians to be "mostly factual" and "reliable". There are a number of manuscripts with different titles, such as Azuchiki (安土記) and Shinchōki (信長記). The chronicle is not only often quoted on subjects related to Nobunaga, but on other subjects, too, such as the art of tea.......If it makes your feel better, he likely died horribly at Honnō-ji in Kyoto, likely by fire or arrows.
I thought the whole draw of this game was that everything was going to be a mix and match mishmash as you go along, in direct contrast to the "historical" games, like, say, Civ, with a change in culture at every historical era marker, or some such.