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#1 The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano had been sent to Japan to spread Christianity. He had brought along a large amount of guns and Catholic artifacts, which he believed would save millions of souls.
#2 The voyage was not all bad for Yasuke. He had gotten on well with the sailors and would miss their company. He had also eaten better than most aboard.
#3 The...
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Warrior. Samurai. Legend.
The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traveled much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child, he had ended up a servant and bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, with whom he traversed India and China learning multiple languages as he went....
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Kidnapped as a child, Yasuke had ended up a servant and bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, with whom he traversed India and China learning multiple languages as he went. His arrival in Kyoto, however, literally caused a riot. Most Japanese people had never seen an African man before, and many of them saw him as the embodiment of the black-skinned Buddha. Among those who were drawn to his presence was Lord Nobunaga, head of the most powerful...
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