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Yasuke (variously rendered as 弥助 or 弥介, 彌助 or 彌介 in different s...

wikipedia - 20 May 2021
Yasuke (variously rendered as 弥助 or 弥介, 彌助 or 彌介 in different sources)[5] was a samurai of African origin who served as a retainer under the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga.[6][7][8] In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India.

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