"Yasuke" was a samurai porter all his life. In Japan at that time, the children of samurai were lifelong samurai, and the children of peasants were lifelong peasants. This current situation was absolute.
You clearly do not know your Japanese history. Considering that the man about to become Shogun (military leader of all Japan and the one to unite Japan under one banner) was a peasant from birth then became a Samurai then became an Imperial Regent serving under Nobunaga and would eventually avenge his betrayal at Honno-ji So how’s that upward mobility, pretty sure they’ve got a statue of this guy at Osaka castle
@@quantumtraveler5208if u told about hideyoshi he took 10 years to be "samurai" of course hideyoshi got lot of war and survived, no one can get those title at only 15 months
@@niziu5470 the problem with this is children of Samurai were not lifelong Samurai. Samurai is a high rank achieved through years of training. Bushi is translated to Samurai in English which is causing this confusion. Bushi is warrior. Children of Samurai were bushi but not Samurai until they achieved the status of Samurai. As was Yasuke, a bushi but not a Samurai.
>In Japan at that time, the children of samurai were lifelong samurai, and the children of peasants were lifelong peasants. hahahahaha. Do you know Hideyoshi Toyotomi who was rose from a peasant to the highest power? You shouldn't make judgments about foreign culture that you don't even know about.
There were never any black samurai. Yasuke was a koshō or sword bearer. He served on Oda's court for somewhere around 18 months. He was mentioned in fighting in only 2 battles and both were losses. In first one, Honnō-ji Incident. The second, the battle of Akechi forces. In the first one, he abandoned Nobunaga and in the second, he gave up his sword and returned to European monastery right after. He was following Oda Nobunaga in inspection after the battle of Tenmokuzan but there is no evidence that he took part of it. Oda Nobunaga didn't even fight in this battle, his army was led by his son, Oda Nobutada. Yasuke was the servant of Oda Nobunaga. Yasuke returned to the monastery after Oda Nobunaga was killed and he was never mentioned again. Its very likely he returned to Africa. Now, Englishman William Adams, known as "Miura Anjin", was made Hatamoto and true Samurai. He served the great Tokugawa Ieyasu, and helped him defeat the Council of Regents and rule Japan. Tokugawa became Shogun of Japan's final Shogunate ever. Formed in 1603, dissolved with the Meiji Restoration in the 1860s. Yasuke is nothing compared to Adams.
There were no real white samurai, William Adams was an English sailor who was obsessed with Japanese samurai culture lol in other words he was a wannabe playing dress up, there’s no real evidence that would suggest that William Adams was a real samurai, just a made up fairytale
William Adams was an English sailor who was obsessed with Japanese samurai culture…..in other words he was a wannabe playing dress up lol 😂 there are no real evidence that proves that William Adams was a real samurai, the European samurai is a fantasy and nothing else, there’s a reason why Oda Nobanoga chose Yasuke as the first foreign honorary samurai, rather then the Europeans who were in Japan at the time…..the Japanese didn’t trust whyte men because they’re sneaky and devious
I love that this comment section is somehow filled with real Japanese historians that know what they are talking about instead of just casual UA-cam watchers it’s really refreshing
They’re acting as if modern black people made him a samurai. Nobunga was the one who gave him the damn katana. Not our fault yasuke was a badass. He was just built different. These lame @$$ UA-cam hoes need to get a grip. I can only imagine if he became. A topic of black history in class rooms 😂
In the USA we were introduce to Yasuke in the 60's. He is called the black Samurai because we were unformilar on how the samurai system worked. It is not a bad thing that he was not a samurai. He is actually more popular than you know. He is the progeniter of the black samurai genre and many black americans who take martial arts are associated as afro-samurai or Yasuke. I to am considered afro-samurai or Yasuke since I am black and I am a Karate kai and Kendo kai. It is not a bad thing. He has become stories for black children to take martial arts. I think it is very nice that he has become a legend here. He should not be used to get money out of people or destroy a history of certain people.
@@MythicalArcana its a story originating from a fabricated wikipedia page. the 1st hand accounts of Yasuke do not state Samurai but Kosho or sword bearer.
@@quantumtraveler5208attacking and belittling your opposition in an argument because the imperical facts and historical documents don't support your claim is shameless.
Ah～ Yasuke Is Not SAMURAI. Be careful, because in English-speaking countries, there are many false Yasuke books written by historical revisionists who want to pander to black people. You must know the truth and save the many people who have been deceived by Yasuke and the historical revisionist Yasuke Black Samurai books. In the real world, Yasuke was a European slave who came to Japan, later presented to Nobunaga, and served as a porter until Nobunaga's death in a rebellion by his subordinates. After Nobunaga's death, he was sent to the Jesuits and disappeared from Japanese history. Professor Goza, an expert on the history of the time, also agrees. Japanese people believe that Yasuke, who was Nobunaga's servant, was a person, not a slave. If it were fiction, it wouldn't have been a problem, but if Yasuke is portrayed as a samurai, it must be a very fantastical story, so care must be taken. When Yasuke was used in the Ubi game, the opinions of historical revisionists were incorporated, and the issue of Yasuke's historical falsification overseas became known in Japan. Currently, a member of the House of Councilors of Japan has begun a preliminary investigation into collecting information and responding to the fact that it has been confirmed that there are forces that are falsifying Japanese history and using Yasuke's existence in international politics. Now that you know about these things, let's enjoy the fantastic Yasuke anime on Netflix! If it's fiction, there's no problem, so enjoy.
Please stop spreading false history. We Japanese can accept it if it says fiction, but we will not accept the fact that Yasuke was a samurai. Yasuke's dramatization is the result of a novel written by a British English teacher and Wiki falsification, and is a fabrication of history and an insult to Japanese culture.
@@illmatex I don’t think so. Even if he were white or Arab, there is no chance he would have been promoted to samurai in less than a year. Even William Adams, who was fluent in Japanese and accomplished many things, took seven years to earn the title of samurai. Yasuke has no record of accomplishments.
Just because you put your comment in Japanese, do not make you a Japanese person. No photo, no name and your reply should be believed. You are just like the pink people up here denying any possibility of him being a Samurai. You are a racist POS and a keyboard bandit. Do you really think the racist people in that error would even admit anything positive about a black man? Nope and if you don't believe that, look inside your racist and pathetic hearts. この部分が、私も日本人なのでしょうね Hhhhhhh
Fun fact: Zero historical evidence that he was ever a samurai. None. Zip. Zero. The only historical documents about him say that he came over as a slave with missionaries and was made a "sword bearer." The myth about him being a samurai came from a pseudo historical book written by an ultra liberal westerner who also wrote the Wikipedia page about Yasuke. Be careful of revisionist history.
You do realize that he was not just a sword bearer, he was also a body guard for Oda Nobunaga, one of the most powerful warlords of feudal Japan. Yasuke was also given a stipend, servants, and even what we would consider a flat today. All this has been confirmed in historical records. Not only that but Thomas Lockey’s book (the one you were referring to) has been peer reviewed by other Japanese PhDs of history and they all agree that Lockey for it right in saying that, by any reasonable definition, Yasuke was a samurai.
@pedroportillo1585 Show me the historical record that says Yasuke was a samurai. You can't because it does not exist. Afrocentrics and marxists love to try and connect the dots to make him a samurai, but they all fail. Go ahead and show me the source. There's not even a source that says he ever participated in any battles. He was a servant that was kept around as a novelty and nothing more.
@@mr.joedirt8583 Sure, let’s start from the beginning. According Portuguese-language Jesuit reports from the late 16th century, Yasuke landed with Jesuit Missionary, Alessandro Valignano, to Japan in 1579. Yasuke was a Soldier Slave that Valignano bought as his bodyguard. Yasuke was tall, muscular, and already a seasoned soldier because the slave trade sold him as a body guard or a soldier for whatever individual needed that kind of skill. Valignano and Yasuke toured Japan for Two years until both meet Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga was so impressed with Yasuke that he asked Valignano to buy Yasuke from him, though records show Yasuke was most likely given to Oda Nobunaga as gift. From here the Japanese chroniclers Ōta Gyūichi and Matsudaira Ietada from the same time period pick up what happened next. These chronicles confirm that Oda Nobunaga gave Yasuke a stipend, land, and even servants. Not only that, but Yasuke was allowed to carry Oda Nobunaga’s weapons, effectively making him a samurai. What people forget is that Oda Nobunaga was a huge deal during feudal Japan and you had to be a highly skilled and high class warrior to even have the honor to hold his weapons, which Yasuke did. But please, don’t believe me. Go read the Portuguese-language Jesuit reports from the late 16th century and the Japanese chroniclers Ōta Gyūichi and Matsudaira Ietada and learn something. These are first hand accounts from the actual time period that confirm that, at the very least, Yasuke was a Samurai. Go ahead, I’ll wait…..
Fun Fact: You're just another culture war propaganda spreading chud who's totally full of it and too cowardly to use your real name and photo to spew your hateful vitriol. You clearly don't know what evidence means. The definition of evidence is "the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is valid or true." By this definition, there is, in fact, a plethora of evidence indicating that Yasuke was Samurai. The Evidence: According to the translated Jesuit records, Yasuke was given a katana, a house, and a stipend, given personal servants, trained in military arts and Japanese literacy, and considered for the eventual title of lordship by his own lord, Oda Nobunaga. The vast majority of Japan historians agree that this was the equivalent of bestowing Samurai rank during the Sengoku period. It was also during the the Sengoku era that the qualifications and defining qualities of a Samurai changed drastically due to the rapidly changing times. A person no longer needed to descend from Japanese nobility nor carry a formal surname in order to become Samurai, and the terms "Bushi" and "Samurai" became synonymous with each other. Also, Nobunaga was a notorious iconoclast who was well known for defying Japanese traditions, thinking outside of the box, dealing with foreigners, and adopting foreign customs and policies. It was perfectly in line with Nobunaga's character to ordain Yasuke as Samurai.
All this was debunk by a japanese historian from what I can tell yusuke was a servant and nobunaga likes to show off so he gave yusuke priveliges expensive garments and land and some important jobs but was never was samurai just a pimped out servant used to show gloat nobunaga, if he was given a samurai title by nobunaga think of the backlash of his pearce, nobunaga will have even more traitors in his circle then there is it wouldve been huge but no because back in the day yusuke was irelavent to the nobles because he wasnt a samurai and had no power over them
the definition of the word SAMURAI. A member of a military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos. It doesn't say the person must be Japanese. Most of the comments come across as bigotry from people who are too afraid to imagine something greater than themselves.
Great video. My wife is Japanese and her and my daughter are currently visiting Japan. I called her and asked her to look up information on this. She sent back a few links to the following: 1. Luis Frois report to Jesuit Society: This document mentions Yasuke battling Akechis forces and eventually losing and giving up his sword. It appears that Akechi didn't look highly upon Yasuke similar to how Nobunaga did. They didn't kill him, but sent him back to a missionary if I'm not mistaken. 2. Matsudaira letades(?) diary: This diary mentions Yasuke being given a stipend (like a payment for military members or in that time, samurai). 3. Letter from Lorenzo Mesia: This document mentions a rumor amongst the population that Nobunaga was going to make Yasuke a "tono". 4. Letter from Luis Frois: This document mentions the people scrambling to get a look at the "cafre" (black slave) and how Yasuke was given 10,000 coins. 5. Shinchokoki (Chronicles of Nobunaga): This document states Nobunaga's excitement about meeting the "Black Monk". These documents are available in Japanese digital archives. My wife sent me this link for anyone that would like to search through it (if you can read Japanese): dl.ndl.go.jp I'll peruse through as many videos on Yasuke as I have time for today and copy paste this information in the comment sections because there's clearly disingenuous individuals bold face lying about this and have clearly done zero research while attempting to downplay this history or say its made up. The above documents are all real archived documents.
none of the real archived documents state he was a samurai but a Kosho or low level Bushi. If he was a Samurai, he would've successfully defended Nobunaga or died trying. the Yasuke movement started a few years ago when someone wrote fabrication on Wikipedia, and Thomas Lockley saw it and wrote a 400 page fiction on Yasuke even though Japan only has a few pages on Yasuke the sword bearer.
@@ak-nt2tr Look, I’m not about to argue semantics with you, ok the word “Samurai” itself wasn’t used, but retainer most certainly was, which for the most part is a “Samurai”. Here’s the bottom line, I could care less if he was “called” a “Samurai” or not, he was a bad a@@ bodyguard that the devs chose to put in the game, and nothings going to change these facts. That is all. 😉
@@KingMadeMusicClayBlack dead wrong. There's no argument here. its 100 percent impossible for Yasuke to be a samurai. he wasn't trained in any Japanese martial arts, it took Hideyoshi 10 years to become a Samurai and Yasuke only served for 15 months. Yasuke didn't even have a family name. Most importantly, if he was anything close to a Samurai he would've died protecting Nobunaga but he didn't even fight.
There's actually a Netflix animated series about Yasuke that is mostly faithful to the real story, just with some added fantasy elements. It's quite nice
Oh my facts are very real no doubt I'm a proud Black man who has studied various martial arts styles including the way of the sword and I've been very blessed to study with descendants of real summarize so trust me when I tell you my fax come from a very real place
From what i've read there were 9 foreigners who became samurai, with yasuke being the first, william adams being the sixth and the final ninth being a prussian soldier named henry schnell from 1860.
The video is spectacular, but what did Yasuke do in the end? Other than the fact that Nobunaga liked his skin color, what other accomplishments did he have? We just ate and played sumo.
Once again, part of Yasuke story has been a lie in history. Yasuke isn't the first African Samurai in Japan, but the last. He was sold by Jesuits to the Japanese Emperor and stayed in Japan for a few years until sent back to the Jesuits. He wasn't African aka Hamite, but a Hebrew Israelite from the tribe of Judah. The first so called black Samurai was Emperor Jin Mu Tenno, who was the progenitor of the Samurai warrior, his strategic warfare, strength and swordsmanship were superior, because he was of the tribe of Judah and Israelite, and knew the ways of his forefathers, fighting skills, which would be taught to the Japanese. Israel was and is the Greatest warriors and military of all time. Not the ones in Israel today, they're fake, converts not original bloodline. The Japanese would base their Samurai credo or code off this black man's innate abilities, which states they have to have the blood of the Jew or black man in order to perform rigorous task as the Samurai warriors. Jin Mu Tenno lived from 711 or 721 B.C. to 126 or 136 B.C. Then you had so called black man, who was an Israelite from the tribe of Judah, Sakanouye Tamuramaro, who was a great Shogun General, who lived from 758 A.D. to 811 A.D. Peace!
The only Japanese who would say that William Adams was not a samurai would be those who were asleep in class. Every year, the “Anjin Festival” is held to honor him. The fireworks were beautiful. I don't know much about Yasuke, but I have seen him in Sengoku Muso.
our first hand accounts state he was a kosho or sword bearer. We have no historical evidence that Yasuke was a Samurai. If he was a Samurai he wouldve defended Nobunaga or died trying but he didn't even fight. It took Hideyoshi, the man that unifed Japan 10 years to become a Samurai. keep dreaming.
@@ak-nt2tr your all over this channel trolling like a jealous school girl lol you speak on Yasuke as if you had a “first hand account” on his experience in Japan 🇯🇵 did you know Nobanoga personally? did you see the last battle that he was in? Yasuke was an honorary foreign Samurai, and therefore wasn’t expected to uphold the same standards as an Japanese born Samurai.
@@3Overhaus there’s no way Oda Nobanoga would have some random guy “carrying his things” your just a bias troll who tries to dictate history by your whyte wash standards
Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (Matsudaira Ietada Diary), Jean Crasset's Histoire de l'église du Japon letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (Nobunaga Official Chronicle), François Solier's Histoire Ecclesiastique Des Isles Et Royaumes Du Japon
What an interesting fairy tale! Ya-suke had to be a ghost-like one like kuro-suke in a Japanese animation movie. In fact he has an iron club to kill Japaneses like legendary ONIs (daemons) do. Black persons should praise him If you like him.
Nam mô cao đài tiên ông đại bồ tát ma ha tát thường hằng Nam mô cao đài tiên ông đại bồ tát ma ha tát thường hằng Nam mô cao đài tiên ông đại bồ tát ma ha tát thường hằng Nam mô a di đà phật hằng tâm
It is a class race is not a factor the infor.ation is out there speaking as a black man who has studied the way of the sword how hard would have been for a man living in japan to do the same thing
"Yasuke" was a samurai porter all his life. In Japan at that time, the children of samurai were lifelong samurai, and the children of peasants were lifelong peasants. This current situation was absolute.
You clearly do not know your Japanese history.
Considering that the man about to become Shogun (military leader of all Japan and the one to unite Japan under one banner) was a peasant from birth then became a Samurai then became an Imperial Regent serving under Nobunaga and would eventually avenge his betrayal at Honno-ji
So how’s that upward mobility, pretty sure they’ve got a statue of this guy at Osaka castle
@@quantumtraveler5208if u told about hideyoshi he took 10 years to be "samurai" of course hideyoshi got lot of war and survived, no one can get those title at only 15 months
@@niziu5470 the problem with this is children of Samurai were not lifelong Samurai. Samurai is a high rank achieved through years of training.
Bushi is translated to Samurai in English which is causing this confusion.
Bushi is warrior. Children of Samurai were bushi but not Samurai until they achieved the status of Samurai.
As was Yasuke, a bushi but not a Samurai.
yep learn history from netflix
>In Japan at that time, the children of samurai were lifelong samurai, and the children of peasants were lifelong peasants.
hahahahaha. Do you know Hideyoshi Toyotomi who was rose from a peasant to the highest power?
You shouldn't make judgments about foreign culture that you don't even know about.
There were never any black samurai. Yasuke was a koshō or sword bearer. He served on Oda's court for somewhere around 18 months. He was mentioned in fighting in only 2 battles and both were losses. In first one, Honnō-ji Incident. The second, the battle of Akechi forces. In the first one, he abandoned Nobunaga and in the second, he gave up his sword and returned to European monastery right after.
He was following Oda Nobunaga in inspection after the battle of Tenmokuzan but there is no evidence that he took part of it. Oda Nobunaga didn't even fight in this battle, his army was led by his son, Oda Nobutada. Yasuke was the servant of Oda Nobunaga.
Yasuke returned to the monastery after Oda Nobunaga was killed and he was never mentioned again. Its very likely he returned to Africa.
Now, Englishman William Adams, known as "Miura Anjin", was made Hatamoto and true Samurai. He served the great Tokugawa Ieyasu, and helped him defeat the Council of Regents and rule Japan.
Tokugawa became Shogun of Japan's final Shogunate ever. Formed in 1603, dissolved with the Meiji Restoration in the 1860s.
Yasuke is nothing compared to Adams.
Jealousy
@@SuccessUzoma-q3tYou can not accept the truth?
@@SuccessUzoma-q3tand inferiority complex.
There were no real white samurai, William Adams was an English sailor who was obsessed with Japanese samurai culture lol in other words he was a wannabe playing dress up, there’s no real evidence that would suggest that William Adams was a real samurai, just a made up fairytale
William Adams was an English sailor who was obsessed with Japanese samurai culture…..in other words he was a wannabe playing dress up lol 😂 there are no real evidence that proves that William Adams was a real samurai, the European samurai is a fantasy and nothing else, there’s a reason why Oda Nobanoga chose Yasuke as the first foreign honorary samurai, rather then the Europeans who were in Japan at the time…..the Japanese didn’t trust whyte men because they’re sneaky and devious
I love that this comment section is somehow filled with real Japanese historians that know what they are talking about instead of just casual UA-cam watchers it’s really refreshing
I swear people did not care about yasuke this much until assassins creed now it’s cultural appropriation this n that
They’re acting as if modern black people made him a samurai. Nobunga was the one who gave him the damn katana. Not our fault yasuke was a badass. He was just built different. These lame @$$ UA-cam hoes need to get a grip. I can only imagine if he became. A topic of black history in class rooms 😂
In the USA we were introduce to Yasuke in the 60's. He is called the black Samurai because we were unformilar on how the samurai system worked. It is not a bad thing that he was not a samurai. He is actually more popular than you know. He is the progeniter of the black samurai genre and many black americans who take martial arts are associated as afro-samurai or Yasuke. I to am considered afro-samurai or Yasuke since I am black and I am a Karate kai and Kendo kai. It is not a bad thing. He has become stories for black children to take martial arts. I think it is very nice that he has become a legend here. He should not be used to get money out of people or destroy a history of certain people.
L OL this is cultural appropriation and you should be sued
You do know that this is a part of Japan's history right?
@@MythicalArcana Yeah most of it can't be verified either.
@@TT09B5you know jealousy and inferiority complex looks really bad a man right…
Makes it look like you’ve got something to compensate for..
@@MythicalArcana its a story originating from a fabricated wikipedia page.
the 1st hand accounts of Yasuke do not state Samurai but Kosho or sword bearer.
@@quantumtraveler5208attacking and belittling your opposition in an argument because the imperical facts and historical documents don't support your claim is shameless.
Ah～ Yasuke Is Not SAMURAI. Be careful, because in English-speaking countries, there are many false Yasuke books written by historical revisionists who want to pander to black people.
You must know the truth and save the many people who have been deceived by Yasuke and the historical revisionist Yasuke Black Samurai books.
In the real world, Yasuke was a European slave who came to Japan, later presented to Nobunaga, and served as a porter until Nobunaga's death in a rebellion by his subordinates. After Nobunaga's death, he was sent to the Jesuits and disappeared from Japanese history.
Professor Goza, an expert on the history of the time, also agrees.
Japanese people believe that Yasuke, who was Nobunaga's servant, was a person, not a slave.
If it were fiction, it wouldn't have been a problem, but if Yasuke is portrayed as a samurai, it must be a very fantastical story, so care must be taken.
When Yasuke was used in the Ubi game, the opinions of historical revisionists were incorporated, and the issue of Yasuke's historical falsification overseas became known in Japan.
Currently, a member of the House of Councilors of Japan has begun a preliminary investigation into collecting information and responding to the fact that it has been confirmed that there are forces that are falsifying Japanese history and using Yasuke's existence in international politics.
Now that you know about these things, let's enjoy the fantastic Yasuke anime on Netflix! If it's fiction, there's no problem, so enjoy.
Fun fact: most of the people that hate yasuke didn’t know he existed until Ubisoft decided to put him in a video game
Japanese: He was a slave.
UA-cam: He was legendary samurai.
Please stop spreading false history. We Japanese can accept it if it says fiction, but we will not accept the fact that Yasuke was a samurai. Yasuke's dramatization is the result of a novel written by a British English teacher and Wiki falsification, and is a fabrication of history and an insult to Japanese culture.
Is it because he is black?
@@illmatex I don’t think so.
Even if he were white or Arab, there is no chance he would have been promoted to samurai in less than a year.
Even William Adams, who was fluent in Japanese and accomplished many things, took seven years to earn the title of samurai.
Yasuke has no record of accomplishments.
私は日本人です。弥助は侍でも武士でも在りません 小姓（使用人）です・・正しい歴史を伝えて下さいお願いします。日本の歴史を改変するのは犯罪です 悲しいです
アサシン クリードのゲームで主人公を黒人の侍にしたユービーアイソフトにそう言ってみろ
この文化の侵害は止めなければならない
Anybody can use google translate to pretend they're from anywhere 🙄
Just because you put your comment in Japanese, do not make you a Japanese person. No photo, no name and your reply should be believed.
You are just like the pink people up here denying any possibility of him being a Samurai. You are a racist POS and a keyboard bandit. Do you really think the racist people in that error would even admit anything positive about a black man? Nope and if you don't believe that, look inside your racist and pathetic hearts.
この部分が、私も日本人なのでしょうね
Hhhhhhh
@@cryp4life509貴方の日本語は不自然だと日本人ならすぐ気付きます。透明化頑張って下さい。今は日本人は黙って我慢するのをやめてますから。
Pretty cool fanfiction
Not fanfiction Yasuke is a real historical person that we don't know much about till this day
@@stormcallerking3315 And that vagueness is what makes him a good choice for an assassin's creed protagonist.
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Fun fact: Zero historical evidence that he was ever a samurai. None. Zip. Zero. The only historical documents about him say that he came over as a slave with missionaries and was made a "sword bearer." The myth about him being a samurai came from a pseudo historical book written by an ultra liberal westerner who also wrote the Wikipedia page about Yasuke. Be careful of revisionist history.
You do realize that he was not just a sword bearer, he was also a body guard for Oda Nobunaga, one of the most powerful warlords of feudal Japan. Yasuke was also given a stipend, servants, and even what we would consider a flat today. All this has been confirmed in historical records. Not only that but Thomas Lockey’s book (the one you were referring to) has been peer reviewed by other Japanese PhDs of history and they all agree that Lockey for it right in saying that, by any reasonable definition, Yasuke was a samurai.
@pedroportillo1585 Show me the historical record that says Yasuke was a samurai. You can't because it does not exist. Afrocentrics and marxists love to try and connect the dots to make him a samurai, but they all fail. Go ahead and show me the source. There's not even a source that says he ever participated in any battles. He was a servant that was kept around as a novelty and nothing more.
@@mr.joedirt8583 Sure, let’s start from the beginning. According Portuguese-language Jesuit reports from the late 16th century, Yasuke landed with Jesuit Missionary, Alessandro Valignano, to Japan in 1579. Yasuke was a Soldier Slave that Valignano bought as his bodyguard. Yasuke was tall, muscular, and already a seasoned soldier because the slave trade sold him as a body guard or a soldier for whatever individual needed that kind of skill. Valignano and Yasuke toured Japan for Two years until both meet Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga was so impressed with Yasuke that he asked Valignano to buy Yasuke from him, though records show Yasuke was most likely given to Oda Nobunaga as gift. From here the Japanese chroniclers Ōta Gyūichi and Matsudaira Ietada from the same time period pick up what happened next. These chronicles confirm that Oda Nobunaga gave Yasuke a stipend, land, and even servants. Not only that, but Yasuke was allowed to carry Oda Nobunaga’s weapons, effectively making him a samurai. What people forget is that Oda Nobunaga was a huge deal during feudal Japan and you had to be a highly skilled and high class warrior to even have the honor to hold his weapons, which Yasuke did. But please, don’t believe me. Go read the Portuguese-language Jesuit reports from the late 16th century and the Japanese chroniclers Ōta Gyūichi and Matsudaira Ietada and learn something. These are first hand accounts from the actual time period that confirm that, at the very least, Yasuke was a Samurai. Go ahead, I’ll wait…..
Fun Fact: You're just another culture war propaganda spreading chud who's totally full of it and too cowardly to use your real name and photo to spew your hateful vitriol. You clearly don't know what evidence means. The definition of evidence is "the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is valid or true." By this definition, there is, in fact, a plethora of evidence indicating that Yasuke was Samurai. The Evidence: According to the translated Jesuit records, Yasuke was given a katana, a house, and a stipend, given personal servants, trained in military arts and Japanese literacy, and considered for the eventual title of lordship by his own lord, Oda Nobunaga. The vast majority of Japan historians agree that this was the equivalent of bestowing Samurai rank during the Sengoku period. It was also during the the Sengoku era that the qualifications and defining qualities of a Samurai changed drastically due to the rapidly changing times. A person no longer needed to descend from Japanese nobility nor carry a formal surname in order to become Samurai, and the terms "Bushi" and "Samurai" became synonymous with each other. Also, Nobunaga was a notorious iconoclast who was well known for defying Japanese traditions, thinking outside of the box, dealing with foreigners, and adopting foreign customs and policies. It was perfectly in line with Nobunaga's character to ordain Yasuke as Samurai.
All this was debunk by a japanese historian from what I can tell yusuke was a servant and nobunaga likes to show off so he gave yusuke priveliges expensive garments and land and some important jobs but was never was samurai just a pimped out servant used to show gloat nobunaga, if he was given a samurai title by nobunaga think of the backlash of his pearce, nobunaga will have even more traitors in his circle then there is it wouldve been huge but no because back in the day yusuke was irelavent to the nobles because he wasnt a samurai and had no power over them
the definition of the word SAMURAI.
A member of a military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos. It doesn't say the person must be Japanese. Most of the comments come across as bigotry from people who are too afraid to imagine something greater than themselves.
Great video. My wife is Japanese and her and my daughter are currently visiting Japan. I called her and asked her to look up information on this. She sent back a few links to the following:
1. Luis Frois report to Jesuit Society: This document mentions Yasuke battling Akechis forces and eventually losing and giving up his sword. It appears that Akechi didn't look highly upon Yasuke similar to how Nobunaga did. They didn't kill him, but sent him back to a missionary if I'm not mistaken.
2. Matsudaira letades(?) diary: This diary mentions Yasuke being given a stipend (like a payment for military members or in that time, samurai).
3. Letter from Lorenzo Mesia: This document mentions a rumor amongst the population that Nobunaga was going to make Yasuke a "tono".
4. Letter from Luis Frois: This document mentions the people scrambling to get a look at the "cafre" (black slave) and how Yasuke was given 10,000 coins.
5. Shinchokoki (Chronicles of Nobunaga): This document states Nobunaga's excitement about meeting the "Black Monk".
These documents are available in Japanese digital archives. My wife sent me this link for anyone that would like to search through it (if you can read Japanese): dl.ndl.go.jp
I'll peruse through as many videos on Yasuke as I have time for today and copy paste this information in the comment sections because there's clearly disingenuous individuals bold face lying about this and have clearly done zero research while attempting to downplay this history or say its made up. The above documents are all real archived documents.
none of the real archived documents state he was a samurai but a Kosho or low level Bushi. If he was a Samurai, he would've successfully defended Nobunaga or died trying. the Yasuke movement started a few years ago when someone wrote fabrication on Wikipedia, and Thomas Lockley saw it and wrote a 400 page fiction on Yasuke even though Japan only has a few pages on Yasuke the sword bearer.
@@ak-nt2tr Look, I’m not about to argue semantics with you, ok the word “Samurai” itself wasn’t used, but retainer most certainly was, which for the most part is a “Samurai”. Here’s the bottom line, I could care less if he was “called” a “Samurai” or not, he was a bad a@@ bodyguard that the devs chose to put in the game, and nothings going to change these facts. That is all. 😉
@@KingMadeMusicClayBlack dead wrong. There's no argument here. its 100 percent impossible for Yasuke to be a samurai. he wasn't trained in any Japanese martial arts, it took Hideyoshi 10 years to become a Samurai and Yasuke only served for 15 months.
Yasuke didn't even have a family name.
Most importantly, if he was anything close to a Samurai he would've died protecting Nobunaga but he didn't even fight.
"YOUNG ETHAN, HEIR OF YASUKE...THE HOUR HAS COME..."
If Hollywood wasn’t such a woke shit show this would be an amazing series to watch! But instead they’d rather make up bs then enjoy true history
There's actually a Netflix animated series about Yasuke that is mostly faithful to the real story, just with some added fantasy elements. It's quite nice
Warner Bros is making a film about him
Explain woke please in your own words
This relationship reminds me of Katsumoto and Nathan Algren from the last samurai movie
Do you have ideas for the Shinsingumi, the military state police force of Kyoto?
thank you for the video i recently found your channel and im glad i did
Welcome! Glad you enjoyed!
Oh my facts are very real no doubt I'm a proud Black man who has studied various martial arts styles including the way of the sword and I've been very blessed to study with descendants of real summarize so trust me when I tell you my fax come from a very real place
This will age well.
Thank You for making me know about different cultures.
Love You Brother ❤️
You got a new subscriber ❤
From what i've read there were 9 foreigners who became samurai, with yasuke being the first, william adams being the sixth and the final ninth being a prussian soldier named henry schnell from 1860.
This video sounds like your explaining the plot to Shogun on Hulu makes me think the “pirate” shoulda been Yasuke
Just commenting to support
The video is spectacular, but what did Yasuke do in the end? Other than the fact that Nobunaga liked his skin color, what other accomplishments did he have? We just ate and played sumo.
Once again, part of Yasuke story has been a lie in history. Yasuke isn't the first African Samurai in Japan, but the last. He was sold by Jesuits to the Japanese Emperor and stayed in Japan for a few years until sent back to the Jesuits. He wasn't African aka Hamite, but a Hebrew Israelite from the tribe of Judah. The first so called black Samurai was Emperor Jin Mu Tenno, who was the progenitor of the Samurai warrior, his strategic warfare, strength and swordsmanship were superior, because he was of the tribe of Judah and Israelite, and knew the ways of his forefathers, fighting skills, which would be taught to the Japanese. Israel was and is the Greatest warriors and military of all time. Not the ones in Israel today, they're fake, converts not original bloodline. The Japanese would base their Samurai credo or code off this black man's innate abilities, which states they have to have the blood of the Jew or black man in order to perform rigorous task as the Samurai warriors. Jin Mu Tenno lived from 711 or 721 B.C. to 126 or 136 B.C. Then you had so called black man, who was an Israelite from the tribe of Judah, Sakanouye Tamuramaro, who was a great Shogun General, who lived from 758 A.D. to 811 A.D. Peace!
Thanks I really enjoyed this one
Glad to hear it!
@@MythicalArcana Came across your video after the upcoming Assassins Creed game trailer came out so fucking hyped dude you got a new sub and like :D
The only Japanese who would say that William Adams was not a samurai would be those who were asleep in class. Every year, the “Anjin Festival” is held to honor him. The fireworks were beautiful.
I don't know much about Yasuke, but I have seen him in Sengoku Muso.
our first hand accounts state he was a kosho or sword bearer. We have no historical evidence that Yasuke was a Samurai. If he was a Samurai he wouldve defended Nobunaga or died trying but he didn't even fight.
It took Hideyoshi, the man that unifed Japan 10 years to become a Samurai. keep dreaming.
@@ak-nt2tr your all over this channel trolling like a jealous school girl lol you speak on Yasuke as if you had a “first hand account” on his experience in Japan 🇯🇵 did you know Nobanoga personally? did you see the last battle that he was in? Yasuke was an honorary foreign Samurai, and therefore wasn’t expected to uphold the same standards as an Japanese born Samurai.
@@DeadPresidents007 LMFAO except that standing up for the truth and whats right is the farthest from trolling you can get.
@@DeadPresidents007From the evidence at hand it's just asinine to believe he was samurai. He was an oddity that Nobunaga had carry his things.
@@ak-nt2tr you have no truth, just bias propaganda, you have no real evidence to disprove that Yasuke was a foreign honorary Samurai
@@3Overhaus there’s no way Oda Nobanoga would have some random guy “carrying his things” your just a bias troll who tries to dictate history by your whyte wash standards
Awesome
William Adams did not have any martial arts background he was merely a sailor who was given the honorary title I think you should check your facts
日本人なら中学校で習う内容だが、武士は戦士であり、行政官でもある。
ヤスケと違い、ウィリアム・アダムスは知識によって武士(高級官僚)の地位を得た。彼は航海術の教師として、通訳として、また国際情勢を知るためのアドバイザーとして、日本に大きな利益をもたらしたため、領地と名字、そして旗本(hatamoto)という上級武士(近衛兵のようなもの)の地位を与えられた。ウィリアムは2024年でも三浦按針の名で日本人に親しまれている。三浦はウィリアムの領地の名前、按針は水先案内人の意味があり、ウィリアムの功績を讃える名前である。
Thanks for the video and information I hope others will enjoy it as well
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed
@@MythicalArcana 👊🏻
Great fascinating Story. I enjoyed it.
Your reference is?
Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (Matsudaira Ietada Diary),
Jean Crasset's Histoire de l'église du Japon
letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis,
Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (Nobunaga Official Chronicle),
François Solier's Histoire Ecclesiastique Des Isles Et Royaumes Du Japon
One of my oldest crushes 😍
What an interesting fairy tale! Ya-suke had to be a ghost-like one like kuro-suke in a Japanese animation movie. In fact he has an iron club to kill Japaneses like legendary ONIs (daemons) do. Black persons should praise him If you like him.
Yasuke was a slave.
弥助は人間のように扱われたペット
Nam mô cao đài tiên ông đại bồ tát ma ha tát thường hằng Nam mô cao đài tiên ông đại bồ tát ma ha tát thường hằng
Nam mô cao đài tiên ông đại bồ tát ma ha tát thường hằng
Nam mô a di đà phật hằng tâm
One of the 1st things that would happen is to test Yesuke’s fighting & then betting on the fight! Japanese were testy little gamblers! 😆
This was an awesome video
I hope ac red does him justice
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Well this video aged well........lmao
Very well indeed, historical fact and known in Japan. Go play nioh 2 😉
@@alphaseeker8136 Calling Yasuke a samuruai is like saying the janitor at Nasa is an astronaut.
侍は民衆に睨みつけないもの。農民に嫌われたら侍として終わるから。冒頭の黒人の目付きぶりは一体なんなの？農民がそんなに大嫌いなの？
Somebody please take offset off the thumbnail😅
I hope from Japan that my friends will not be fooled by this lies.
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SHŌGUN! 😂🙏🏽
So Yauke wasnt a samurai but William Adams was? The hypocrisy neelver stops with y'all.
@@Kognac150 historical documentation is not hypocrisy.
B.S.
fake
You are so right
Yasukes original name was Baltazar Hasan Baloi, a freeman with a Portuguese first name.
First black dude that knew what a Samurai was. Antonio Banderas wasnt a viking either
Samurai are Japanese if I’m not mistaken.
Its a job not a race
Yes they’re Japanese but historically yasuke was the first black samurai. Which I said in the video….
Yes but he was trained and became one.
Yeah, but you don’t have to be Japanese to be a samurai. You can even be a woman.
It’s effectively a class and society at that time.
It is a class race is not a factor the infor.ation is out there speaking as a black man who has studied the way of the sword how hard would have been for a man living in japan to do the same thing
Fairytale
😂😂😂
can i get reparations from japan?