WB to do project on Yasuke, the fake black samurai
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He was a slave given to a Japanese ruler right? I don’t know where the samurai part came in. Was he a bodyguard? 10 to 20 years ago I would’ve checked this out (more likely they would’ve stuck to the actual facts) but I can only imagine the amount of modern day stuff there will be
Not given. Nobunaga never met the guy. This is the most likely outcome because Nobunaga would write poetry about everything, he was a fervent proponent of poetry to the point where even his allied nobles thought it was weird. He once wrote a haiku about how his favorite pair of sandals broke. Given that in all his collected writings there is not one word about meeting a black man, it's just about inarguable that the two never met at all.
Well, the thing is he is also in the Japanese game Nioh as a masked Ninja working for Nobunaga Oda. So who know.