He was probably the monkey being kept around as an oddity for amusement than anything actually useful or important. That ain't racism as you need to remember this is Japan BEFORE even WW2, just remember how they treated PoWs and then put the ONE Black guy in a country like that.
He got the same treatment as when animals from different continents were brought over only he could actually clean after himself.
Given how prolific a writer Nobunaga was, Yasuke clearly wasn't real. The myth claims Nobunaga was so surprised by his appearance that he ordered him to try and scrub off the color, but nothing like that is in his writings. Literally the only source is the journal of one Jesuit.
He was probably the monkey being kept around as an oddity for amusement than anything actually useful or important. That ain't racism as you need to remember this is Japan BEFORE even WW2, just remember how they treated PoWs and then put the ONE Black guy in a country like that.
He got the same treatment as when animals from different continents were brought over only he could actually clean after himself.
Given how prolific a writer Nobunaga was, Yasuke clearly wasn't real. The myth claims Nobunaga was so surprised by his appearance that he ordered him to try and scrub off the color, but nothing like that is in his writings. Literally the only source is the journal of one Jesuit.
And given they were Catholic and the Japanese had a very.....messy history with them, it's even less believable.
It would be more creditable if it was an account from a Dutch Protestant as they were lifelong friends for centuries.