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YASUKE -ヤスケ-
Japan. 1582. The samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed his liege lord Oda Nobunaga and sets his castle alight. Trapped by the blaze, Nobunaga elected to die by seppuku - ritual suicide. His friend and retainer Yasuke - a Black man and the first foreigner ever granted the rank of samurai - acted as his second. Not long after Nobunaga's death, Yasuke vanished from the historical record. Continue Reading →