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Is there any truth to that black samurai legend? Also even if it was totally legit if you tell me about a new samurai in ancient Japan, I want to play as a Japanese character
There was no black samurai. The only ''account'' of one is an unconfirmed fiction / lie by a foreigner.
The records of other ( real ) Japanese people mentionned in the fiction, do not mention a black samurai.
I figured as much. If there had been one, I would think it would’ve been documented pretty well. I’m extremely skeptical of any of these claims that pop up in the past decade. Like the people that justify modern period pieces by insisting blacks were everywhere in Europe in the Middle Ages
Yea he was just a sailor or possibly a slave. Nobunaga was fascinated by his skin and took him home to show guests. He stayed there for less then a year. Nobunaga may have made him an honorary samurai. Then Nonunaga was killed and when everyone else was being executed they let him go because they regarded him as a farm animal. Not joking. The idea that he was an elite samurai warrior is ridiculous. Almost nothing is actually known. Because he wasn't important.
I figured that either it was totally false or had a bit of truth that was greatly embellished due to the times we live in. Similar to how when that stupid Netflix Vikings show with the black woman as a Viking came out all of a sudden shill media articles popped up claiming that historians say that African Vikings were common. Or something like that
The only believable idea is that Portuguese slave traders made it to Japan and that Nobunaga purchased Yasuke from them. If he was a Samurai, it was really in title only, I doubt he was a trained warrior or bodyguard, but rather a personal manservant.
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Well, no, not necessarily. Being born into the caste is certainly the most common and easiest way of being samurai, but people definitely were "promoted" to being samurai if they performed some exemplary deed. Or were a foreigner a high-ranking daimyo took a liking to.
Hell, one of the most important samurai figures in all of feudal Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, started life as a peasant, was promoted to samurai and then one of the most historically impactful daimyos in Japanese history, shogun in all but name.
Ironically, his birth as a peasant was the reason he couldn't become shogun (he had none of the necessary bloodlines). But samurai, that was definitely possible. Uncommon, but possible.