A statue of Yasuke, an Africa man , who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black Samurai.
Yasuke was a man of African origin who served as a Kashin under the Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga.In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India.
Borne: Mozambique
Height; 6′ 0”
Battles-wars; Battle of Tenmokuzan, Honno-ji
Rank: Retainer, bodyguard.
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