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Yasuke is the main protagonist in the 2021 Netflix anime series Yasuke, created by LeSean Thomas and animated by MAPPA. He is voiced by Jun Soejima in Japanese and LaKeith Stanfield in English.
Jun 26, 2024 · Yasuke (born c. 1550s) was a Black samurai who served the daimyo Oda Nobunaga in Japan during the Sengoku (“Warring States”) period. He was the first known foreigner to achieve samurai status.
Apr 30, 2021 · But Yasuke was a real-life Black samurai who served under Oda Nobunaga, one of the most important feudal lords in Japanese history and a unifier of the country.
Jan 10, 2023 · Yasuke was an African warrior in the employ of Nobunaga, a powerful feudal lord known as the “Great Unifier,” during Japan’s Sengoku period. The first Black samurai, he was at...
Sep 17, 2020 · Described by Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman as “one of history’s best-kept secrets,” Yasuke is believed to be the only person of African ancestry to have reached the rank of samurai. He originally arrived on Japanese shores in 1579 as a bodyguard to Alessandro Valignano who’d been appointed to inspect the Jesuit missions in the ...
Feb 13, 2021 · It's true: A servant from Africa named Yasuke achieved the rank of samurai warrior in Japan in the 16th century.
Yasuke est un prénom masculin courant à l'époque au Japon. C'est aussi le nom d'un personnage du folklore japonais dont l'utilisation la plus connue est dans la pièce intitulée Yoshitsune Senbon-sakura du théâtre bunraku et kabuki 17, 18.
