African samurai: the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan

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Traces the remarkable life story of Japan's first foreign-born samurai, detailing his near-mythical journey from a boy soldier in late-sixteenth-century Northern Africa to the heights of Japanese society, where his presence triggered cultural riots.

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African American
Asia
Biography
Black people
Black people -- Japan -- Biography
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History
Japan
Japan -- History -- Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603
Samurai
Samurai -- Japan -- History
Yasuke
Yasuke -- (Black Samuraï)

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