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."
I’ve read some comment sections on YouTube and sadly some people will just clap like a seal over the latest DEI conquest
I'm not surprised by any of this and leave it to the history autists to immediately start poking holes in everything the leftists and Ubisoft are claiming. The mockery will likely get so bad that eventually they'll pull the "Well it's a work of fiction anyway so checkmate bigots!" and they may even make that into official canon.
However because of their inevitable backtracking it will completely erode the 'historically accurate' hype they were building and the whole premise was they were trying to insert a black guy who allegedly really existed. It's kind of quite a bit scandal by gaming standards really which is dumb because if they went with their fictional storytelling right from the get go it wouldn't have been an issue but they insisted on pushing this shite. It's looking likely this woman who wrote this crap found this reference to the black man in ancient Japan and then jumped on it without doing any further research because to her this is just a grift. Ubisoft likely bought it because of credentials and did zero background checking themselves.
I don't even think this is even an issue of them being malicious about pushing their agenda, I think they really are that stupid.
It’s malicious. Woke SJWs are genuinely racist against Japan. Western Game Devs, particularly of the Indie variety, and Western Game “Journalists” and media personalities are particularly guilty of hating Japan and we can see that in decades of coverage towards Japanese games. The act of using a black man instead of a Japanese character in feudal Japan is blatantly racist and a humiliation ritual.
They hate'em cause they can't be 'em.
Japanese game devs have created products and franchises that can be enjoyed to this very day, and in some cases, even if you don't speak japanese. Wokeoids devs of both corporate and indie flavor have never managed to make anything fun - they depend on frameworks, bloatware and managed third party sales systems to create games that behave less as games, and more as lectures on ideology.
They thought that by becoming game devs, they could control the narrative and break into our hobby to become our new masters. Instead, they broke their teeth on the walls of reality and are haemohorraging money with every tottering step they make, becoming dependent on federal money to even exist for any period of time.
That's why they're so desperate. That's why they're so afraid.
So you're saying we wuz santa an shieet?
Good Lord that old comment is getting a lot of mileage.
its a good post that's why.
There's a reason I kept this around, despite rarely agreeing with Kaarous.
That comment hit the nail on the head, and I believe in giving credit where credit is due.
One qualm I would have about it is that it doesn't prove that the so-called "Yasuke" learned Japanese in 3 months. It only claims that within 3 months of meeting Nobunaga, "Yasuke" would have convinced him of his skills and loyalty, and would have been welcomed as one of his samurai. "Yasuke" could have learned Japanese before the meeting every happened, which could theoretically have been over a period of decades, as incredibly unlikely as that could be. Languages are learned much easier when you're immersed in the culture and surrounded by people who speak it, giving you no choice but to learn it to integrate yourself. But who knows; if the man's name was really "Yasuke", then he could have been raised from infanthood by Japanese immigrants, before ever arriving in the country.
From another post, apparently, there was only one year between "Yasuke's" supposed arrival to Japan and Nobunaga's death, and no major war to speak of during that time that would have required him to find more samurai to bolster his forces. If that second post is accurate, then the length of time "Yasuke" would have had to learn Japanese within Japan would be closer to 9 months, before meeting with Nobunaga. Still nowhere near believable, and I still don't believe that he actually existed, but at least it doesn't make an assumption not supported by the premise.
The first thing I thought when I heard about Yasu (which was like last week; I'm not a weeb) was that bringing blacks to Japan is exactly the kind of thing Jesuits would do. Those guys brought blacks everywhere, often in chains. And I had been watching the first few episodes of "Shogun" so I was thinking about Jesuits and the Portuguese.
But yeah Jesuits and black/slavery is a pretty good google search. They're still apologizing for it.