WB to do project on Yasuke, the fake black samurai
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It is claimed he was given to oda who then trained him and made him a samurai
The issue with that claim is oda nobunaga was a prolific poet who wrote poetry about damn near anything
Yet oddly he never made any poetry about this black slave turned samurai
Ohhh. Ok. Thanks I always heard he was given to Oda and the whole legend of being a Samuri came from that. Metranon addressed the complaint if no black ppl in Shogun by saying that the Dutch and other European traders may have had African slaves or workers on their ship. He did mention that there is some Japanese writings about one slave or African worker and they describe him as inky dark. Metranon went on to say that the fact they described him in such detail was due to the rarity of seeing someone like that. I think this movie will be garbage considering the director and the samurai claim is not concrete to be polite