Re:Who Was Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai?
by shrubble on Saturday January 14, 2023 @06:09PM
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My understanding is that Yasuke was Black in the way used today.
However he was not considered bound by the same rules as a Japanese samurai, since he was not required to commit ritual suicide on the death of his lord, Nobunaga. That he lived after Nobunaga's death has some sort of meaning; whether that has been fully discovered at this point I don't know.
However he was not considered bound by the same rules as a Japanese samurai, since he was not required to commit ritual suicide on the death of his lord, Nobunaga. That he lived after Nobunaga's death has some sort of meaning; whether that has been fully discovered at this point I don't know.