The main source of the Yasuke story was from Jesuit chronicles and Jesuits were known to make up a lot of crap.(it should be noted that Jesuits were famous for having jewish converts btw and they came from Spain and Protugal that were countries that made their jewish population convert. The current globohomo Pope is a Jesuit incidentally)
. Nobunaga never mentioned Yasuke in his own writings. Which given that Nobunaga would write poems about pretty much anything he laid eyes on, suggests that the two never met. The sole corroborating account stated that one of the jesuits had a black servant, and they presented him as a curiosity to Nobunaga's court, but there is evidence of nothing else.
And here's another strain on historical credulity. Supposedly Yasuke fought for Nobunaga as a samurai(Even at this , this is ridiculous because samurai were the nobility caste you had to be born in to a samurai family to be a samurai , you couldn't just "become one"). One of the claims is that he spoke fluent Japanese.
The time period between when they supposedly met and when Nobunaga was assassinated by Akechi Mitsuhide was... three months.
A black guy from what would now be Morocco, probably a slave to the Jesuits , and someone whose language skills would have included mostly broken Portuguese, supposedly learned one of the most difficult languages on earth in three months. For reference, Japanese has three formal alphabets.
There is nothing about the story that is historically credible. There is more evidence of Santa Claus than there is of Yasuke.
There's a reason why Medieval Japan aggressively expelled the Jesuits and called them spies that were looking to subvert and conquer Japan.
He did mention him, wanting him to join him as a retainer, let's be honest though it was probably as a curiosity and not as a honest thing. A pet isn't a samurai and doubt a samurai is just as easy to be. Fluent Japanese I also doubt since he'd have had someone to teach him, someone who doesn't share a language with him.See reply below, I pretty much fell for BS for a couple years ago ^^"
Where did he mention him?
In some of his writings, apparently...I even checked and couldn't find any direct sources of it weirdly enough.
I'd assume someone like that did exist, but probably more as a manservant who's brought by missionaries, maybe shown off. That he was more than a curiosity and some kinda samurai is retarded any anyone claiming such makes no sense. He's supposedly met him a couple months before Mitsuhide betrayed him. We don't even know if this guy was even there anymore. And making someone a samurai in that time? Yea, doubt.
I've wrote the first comment before I looked much deeper into it, I've noticed something interesting the original poster of the topic didn't even mention: Most of the sources on him are around 2015-2016ish, all very "afro-centric". That a black guy was there at the time in Japan I'd not rule out tough, but samurai I would categorically call bullshit we wuz samurai n shiete fantasies by the usual people.
It's actually kinda scary how since the early to mid 2010s we're having people claim BS without backing it up, it is very telling when all the sources I could find were around that time only, behind some paywalls or some book written by someone who's very much capital B black. Makes me think what other BS is being propagated.
It is kind of horrifying that people can pump a lot of BS out there, the BS circulates and ages and then becomes the source for further BS. Eventually the central claim is accepted as true.
I heard it called "injecting" in the past, though recently people have been using the term "information laundering". It used to be in the realm of intel agency psyops and astroturfing. It's how all mainstream news functions now.