One glaring thing i noticed that people have missed is that Yasuke had no last name (family name). In ancient times, Japanese peasants didn't have last names only the nobility and the samurai did. So the fact that Yasuke has no last name/family name and was never given one means he was never accepted as a samurai. (besides the fact that you know....the title of samurai was passed down through blood and you couldn't just become one anyways)
Of course this is just if Yasuke did exist, but he didn't.
Preaching to the choir at this point. And probably going to end up getting u/Kaarous old response to me some time ago becoming a copypasta.
The sole argument for the existence of Yasuke is the Jesuit chronicles of their missions to Japan. Which were filled with nonsense and aren't taken seriously by most Catholics. Several of them were bloating their accounts in hopes of a bishopric.
Nobunaga never mentioned him 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 missionary priests had a black servant, and they presented him as a curiosity to Nobunaga's court, but there is evidence of nothing else.
Here's another strain on historical credulity. Supposedly Yasuke fought for Nobunaga as a samurai. 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 priests, and someone whose language skills would have included mostly broken Portuguese, supposedly learned the second most difficult language on earth in three months. For reference, Japanese has three goddamn formal alphabets.
There is nothing about the story that is historically credible. There is more evidence of Santa Claus than there is of Yasuke. Now if you want a Japanese historical figure that is actually interesting and actually real, I suggest Honda Tadakatsu. He's a real life Hercules.
ive been posting screenshots of this post on twitter. i also want to turn this in to a copypasta lol
May as well also remind people insisting that he fought in Nobunaga's army what Nobunaga was known for: total massacre in his conquests, no survivors, "end the grudges before they can even begin."