Yasuke
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yasuke-214-766114
title:
Yasuke
text:
Shinchō Kōki Yasuke was a man of African origin who served as a sword bearer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of approximately 15 months between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident. There are few historical documents on Yasuke. From the fragmentary accounts, Yasuke first arrived in Japan in the service of Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. Nobunaga summoned him out of a desire to see a black man. Subsequently, Nobunaga took him into
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
16th-century African retainer of Oda Nobunaga
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
date created:
2005-11-22T05:06:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T11:09:18Z
main entity:
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