Was Yasuke Really An African Samurai? What is the REAL story of Assassins Creed Shadows.
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The Internet exploded in debate when Ubisoft announced that the main character in Assassins Creed Shadows would be an "African Samurai" named Yasuke. But what was the real story of Yasuke and was he really a samurai?
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I heard the Assassins Creed twitter account blocked an actual Japanese Historian for trying to weigh in on this.
Several actually.
@@65fireredthis. They've banned Japanese historians, Japanese assassin's creed fans and anyone challenging this.
@@googlesucks925 And the AC Community just keeps quiet about it.
It was a fake if your talking about kenji he was American
@@googlesucks925I just know one which was kenji who ended up not even being Asian and was American he was fske
I just think that once again another company continues to appease their shareholders via the forced ESG score.
It is also not their first time butchering history, they did it with Odyssey, and I think they got some things wrong with Syndicate as well, and all 3 of these games are developed by Ubisoft Quebec.
There was also a tiny bit of revision of Persian history in AC2.
Black guy clubbing Asians? Sounds like New York City.
😂😂😂😂
Jesus. I shouldn't have laughed at this. Happening a lot in California aswell.
Oh but white men stealing culture is ok with u
You don’t have to to look at his status. He was in Japan for 15 months that’s not a time to learn Japanese or how to how to use a sword.
Let alone learn to use a sword with the finesse expected from a samurai.
If he was already a warrior he didn't need to.
@@doompigg7403 all we know is he was a slave. Occam‘s razor suggest he’s not. If he was a warrior, he’s not a very good one because a he’s a slave and he lost again the one time we know he fought
It is fact that yasuke served as the retainer for daimyō Oda Nobunaga ...oda met him when he came with a Jesuit to Japan and was fascinated with his physical stature and his skin, took them from the Jesuit or paid for him then they developed a close relationship and Oda respected him very much, made him his retainer other samurai weren't happy about it because he's a foreigner .. it's also known that after Oda died / committed suicide ,he left to go help out oda's son and fought with Honor.. but there's not much information outside of that
@@0944clayton
I dont get why taking the power from this person's image is so important to some of you. We know he was with the Jesuits because they felt they needed protection when they went to japan. He COULD'VE been a slave. Some historians think he was probably a paid merc. He sailed in from india and African mercenaries were all over the region at the time. So assuming that's how it went: nobody would hire a bodygaurd that doesnt have combat experience. This would also help explain why Oda then hired him as bodygaurd because he could've been impressed by him. There are at least two times we know he fought. once at the honnoji incident and another time when in the company another oda clan member. he wasn't cut down either time, so what makes you think he wasnt a very good one? I read one account where it was thought that Akechi's men had to convince him to stop fighting verbally and that they would spare him if he did. Im going to be honest with you, there's no substance or reason for this comment. it really just seems like you're trying to downplay him, and that's like, really fuckign weird because, why?
He wasn't just black, he was a trans-demi-lesbian girl.
So kawaii!
He's a man.
Unfunny
So u thinknoda was a female demon?
And Nobunaga's waifu. Changed his name to Nobuniga.
We wuz samurai n shiiii ✊🏿🏀
A depiction that is accurate or not, what the backlash really comes down to is Ubisoft's failure at "reading the room".
Ubisoft had to know that this would be controversial. How can they be so naive to believe that this direction wouldn't bother the fanbase?
It's yet another example of an un-asked for "progressive tilt" to an otherwise revered franchise.
I mean, it HAS been something fans have wanted! Assassin's Creed in feudal Japan! Here it is!
Oh, Ubisoft is giving you what you want...but poking you in the eye in the process.
Ubisoft, gaming's money paw.
Well they probably assumed they would get away with this one because they got away with butchering history in Odyssey. Both these games are by the same studio too.
@@redcobra6016 They did so with Syndicate as well. It's always Ubisoft Quebec that pull this BS.
@@65firered I heard they got some things wrong with that one too, they really are the worst offenders when it comes to butchering history out of all the Ubisoft studios.
@@redcobra6016 At this point, this studio is the worst to work on Assassin's Creed as whole. Not just in terms of depicting history authentically but also depicting cultre, writing, lore, gameplay, etc. Their games are consistently bad. Funny enough the one time they left Assassin's Creed and made their own game, Immortals:Fynx Rising it was better than both Syndicate and Odyssey combined.
He was NOT a samurai, he was only in Japan for a couple years
Year and two months
Yasuke is not well known at all in Japan. Naturally, there is no record of him having been active as a samurai. If he had a good record, he would be included in textbooks. It all started when an English teacher ignorant of Japanese history named Thomas Lockley published a book overseas that distorted Japanese history in order to make money by using black people. It is true that Yasuke came to Japan with Portuguese missionaries, but he was merely a baggage carrier. He could not understand Japanese (he could only speak broken Japanese at best) and he never fought on the battlefield. It is impossible for someone with no achievements to become a samurai, even for a Japanese person.
First of all, to become a samurai, it is important to have the achievements of your ancestors and your bloodline, and what achievements you made in war. To become a samurai, you need to receive thorough education from childhood, and you need not only martial arts, but also cultural education such as art, calligraphy, and poetry. Foreigners are mistaken. Foreigners are delusional that they can become samurai just by swinging a sword around and going wild. It's really ridiculous. Yasuke could not speak Japanese well enough, was completely ignorant and uneducated to understand Japanese art and culture, had no achievements on the battlefield, and was just a baggage carrier. We cannot give rank to such incomprehensible foreigners.
If you can't understand, think the opposite. If an Asian of unknown origin appeared in medieval England, could he be given a title and become a knight even though he couldn't speak English? It's impossible.
By the way, there is one important piece of information that foreigners are missing, so I will tell you about it. In medieval Japan, a person's name can tell you their rank. By the way, "Yasuke" was the name of a farmer or ordinary citizen, and was never used as the name of a person of high rank. And the reason "Yasuke" was definitely not a samurai is because he did not have a "family name." I can say this with certainty.
Well I mean all of this was yearsssss ago😂so I’m not surprise there’s little information on him and who cares he was only alive for a couple years that mean he was fighting and killing next to his master side😂just because he was a samurai for a while don’t mean anything he was still a samurai at the end of the day and still fought in battles
So yes u don't know tf u are talking about
@@Alex-px8dp 1. How long was he in service to Nobunaga?
2. What are all these battles he fought in? Can you name some?
3. Who are the people you claim he killed. Can you name a number or even a single name of someone he killed?
4. What primary source do you have that states he was samurai at all?
@@Alex-px8dp look up thomas lockley, he the one who made up the story of yasuke and we now know he made it up, he has no evidence and been exposed for making it up, he has now deleted all social medias and is now running.
so ya, yasuke was never a samurai
Actually anyone could become a samurai during the sengoku period of Japan and oda nobunaga never followed normal japanese traditions as he even killed monks but no one really actually has the answers to whether he was or not.
侍であれば、苗字を持っているはずです。三浦按針の三浦のように。
No u don't and u aren't even japanese
With the trend of games to be more black and more gay, it is not surprising.
More black? 99% of games are white dudes.....What are you talking about?
Gay? Name a game with gay characters?
@@arefallout The last of us part ii
@@SmedleyDouwright 1..........1 character was gay.....alright lol
@@arefallout Consult Bishop Google for more gay characters in games. Don't be so lazy.
Im very ctitical of ubisofts depiction of Yasuke, but as a character he could have been an interesting way to connect the assassins to Japan, seeing that he might have been aware of their guild's presence in Africa, India and/or the Middle East before he travelled with the jesuits.
But I wouldnt have made him a main character, and if I had to make him one, Id make a fictional character inspired by him instead.
同意します。なんでUBIは今回に限って実在する人物を主人公に据えたのか、わかりません。せめて、架空の黒人忍者などを主人公にすればよかったのに、と思ってしまいます。
If you know anything about Japan and its past and present history....NOPE!
Odd that Japanese historians disagree with you but alright we will take your word
@@arefalloutwhich Japanese historians?
@horustortoise6110 Yes Historians that study japanese history, or historians that are japanese lol could be either.
@@arefallout which ones
Japanese don't even know much of Yasuke. It is funny, if he was a supposedly widely known Samurai, the Japanese would be well aware of him. The thing is, they aren't. Since there isn't much information about him, only Oda had a few sentences written about him and that is all.
Also, samurai generally have a surname. Hideyoshi was given the name Hashiba when serving under Oda, he was promoted into a minor Lord, given his own land and governed over Nagahama, Ōmi province, Lord of Chikuzen. Eventually his name change from Hashiba after Oda's fall to Toyotomi. Though the Toyotomi was rewarded to him his merits and recognized by the Imperial court after he was adopted in another family, making Toyotomi his own given clan.
Yasuke has no clan or surename.
Also with the outcome after Oda's death, Yasuke didn't give his life as a warrior. He didn't commit seppuku. He didn't vow revenge 13 Ronin Style for his lord's fall. He just vanished over time.
Yasuke was NOT SAMURAI, but SLAVE.
This is true.
@@どん兵衞-p6pno he wasn't just a slave. Then became a samurai. Yall are just racist
I think it’s a great protagonist as it’s an interesting real life historical figure, however little enough is known about him that they’re able to almost write his story however they like. And it skilfully skirts all the silly race bollocks because they get to include him alongside the Japanese characters without it seeming forced or pandering
It doesn't matter who's mad about it when it drop in November I'm getting that ... they act like they was there if they was then they should've painted him as a yt man like they did in Europe made all the Black People clear
Seems like a load of woke nonsense but you actually made it interesting. If only the game is actual half as good as you make it seem. Assassins Creed has been woke garbage for a long time. The likelihood of them resisting the urge to virtual single throughout is too strong and thus I have zero faith that they can make a good game at all.
I don't get all this backlash against Yasuke. No one complained about the fact Edward Kenway wasn't a real pirate so why does Yasuke have to be a real Samurai. Also Yasuke was entangled in the Assasins order so the fact we don't know much about him is perfect. Only problem i see is they made him huge a bulky he should have been the sneaky secret guy that did great things but in the shadows. That would explain him not being in the history books so much.
The same reason they flipped out over Jonathan majors as a storm tooper, or donald glover casted for spiderman lol. They're just hididng behind historical integrity, without realizing the historical context is for the most part unknown.
History Revealed ○ Thank you for having a common sense video. Because most of these ignorant and sometimes bigoted RUclipsrs lack that trait.
A bigger query amd one that lines up with the company being woke is, why would they market a game that most of the revenue is coming from white westerners and make them live vicariously through a minority that mostly has no interest in history, amd spends most of their time in the criminal life chasing short term goals like owning a gucci shirt but having to wash it at a laundromat. No one buying this game wants to play Samurai as lebron James 😂
They could have very easily made a spectrum of options .and when the data came in youd see that 99% of the players are probably white males that chose the white male character
Ubisoft are prob going to be out of business soon.. their stock is down 40%
I can't believe people are getting mad it this.
We, Japanese, is getting angry for history fabrication.
If somebody say, "Your mom was a bitch."
Can you get through it?
Sounds like he was most likely not a samurai... if ubisoft wanted to pander that bad they could have chosen one of many amazing female samurai... 😐
Regardless it makes for a great story
Pretty sure he was African American as he has a severe taste for hip hop according to ubisoft.
To the Japanese, Yasuke is just a slave! There is an episode when he was captured by the enemies of Nobunaga Oda and was freed by being told, "This is an animal, not a person, so there is no need to kill it."
Facts source : There is an episode
@@mirandareader Fact source: Events described in a report by Alessandro Valignano, a Jesuit missionary who was in Japan at the time.Think for yourself before commenting! Good comment,lol.
I agree with this. We don't have any conclusive evidence to say he was or wasn't a samurai. I think if Ubisoft wrote him well and show us a foreigner's perspective into Japan without some biased agenda, I will have a blast with Yasuke.
Keyword here is fictional 😂
I am just sick of it myself... when I say he existed and there's a 50/50 chance on both boards everyone screams their non-sensical opinions. glad someone actually decided to get it right.
I was all for this game, but you bring your woke crap into this and ban actual historians... I'll pass
There is nothing woke, u are just racist
Yasuke is not a samurai. I was a porter all my life. If he had a sword, it's for harakiri.
Stfu. U just proving u are racist wishing death on black ppl
He was given a soerd for his job at oda retainer. Samurai giving military service
Yasuke was a samurai, u are just mad that he isn't white
Yauske was a real life person in history.
Edward kenway, Connor, Hythen, Shay Cormac, Bayek, Alexios, Kasandra, Arno Dorion, Jacob and Eve Frye, Altier and Ezio are all fake characters. They never existed! All you people who hate this game is because you just racist!
ok there.
Yasuke was actually a real person in history,
On the other hand, he was just the slave of Nobunaga Oda.
This is the truth.
Don't fabricate Japanese history.
@@どん兵衞-p6p where is your source?
@@kingscorpion7709 お前のソースこそ何だよ。まさか日本語以外のネット情報って言うんじゃないだろうな。
@@どん兵衞-p6p All i'm saying is that there is little historical info to know for certain,
Maybe Yasuke was a samurai, maybe he was a slave, maybe he is a folk tail and never existed. Who could say.
This guy didn't even mention the 1st assassin's creed protagonist cause he was a syrian.
Honestly there are no points of contention for me. History should always be as close as possible to the historical truth as far as you know, for example with dinosaurs
Well you meet the characters but not necessarily at the right times So yes they lived in this time period, not necessarily in this year but in the whole dough period and that is what Assassin's Creed game is about in a different time period is It is not entirely accurate and Machiavelli was not otherwise as manipulative and evil as is always called, so Assassin's Creed is not even remotely like what we actually was but Otherwise I have to admit yes that is true but there are much better Japanese characters than a black one in Japan e.g. the Samurai yes the book of the five rings has been done yes my speech recognition Will not recognize the name or oda nougunage V******** Hell I hope the name is spelled correctly if not my katana and it in my stomach😂
The fact that Yosuke didn't kill himself with Obu Nogunaba with seppuku does tell you that he wasn't a samurai. A Samurai would respect the boshido code
Black or not most samurai didn't kill themselves.
@joshuawebb2766 they would, in the case of defeat, which it was in the case of Yosuke
信長の弟で 本能寺で逃げた 織田長益(有楽斎 通称 源五 源五朗) と言うのが居た。
本能寺の後 京都の民衆から
人でなしと 歌にも歌われ バカにされたそうです。
明智から 逃がされたものが 果たして 民衆や家臣から 信頼を得れたのか 疑問です？
切腹は武士が名誉を守るために行う儀式なんだけど、それだけにルールがあるので、ある程度の時間的猶予が必要。
本能寺の変は奇襲を受けて時間が足りなかったので、明智光秀に首をとられて倒されたことを確定されないために、屋敷に火を付けて自害した（織田信長が切腹したかは不明）
上記のように切腹は武士が名誉を守るためにする儀式なので、名字も持たず、織田家の家臣一覧に名前がのってもいない弥助は、明智光秀から「なにも知らない獣のようなものなのでイエスズ会に返す」と言われて命を救われました。
なお弥助と同じように脇差しや褒美をもらい、同じように荷物運びなどの側仕えをしていた力士たちは、織田信長を守るために戦い全員が討ち死に(殉死)しました。
このとき弥助は、明覚寺という一キロほど離れた寺に居たと資料に残されているため、織田信長の最後に立ち会える訳がないのです。
@@ヒナオ宮さて、これが事実であることを示す文書はありますか
Yessss i agree , Yasuke shouldn't have been the main character because he was so insignificant to Japanese history. However, i do agree that Yasuke would have been an excellent side character that you meet throughout the story. That would have been far more interesting. In fact, you could have been his trainer to protect Nogunaba as his bodyguard
It turns out that the story of Yasuke was written based on Thomas Lockley's delusions and desires😂
He has deleted all his social media accounts and is currently on the run lol
Meanwhile, William Adams was more of a real Samurai than Yasuke was. ;)
Well he definitely was one, a high ranking one at that.
@@alexandermagnus82 Absolutely, he had a title, a land, and a family. Unlike Yasuke, there is actual Japanese historical records detailing records of it, too.
@@Bobby__BYasuke actually saw battle unlike williams
@TheEzekiel300 Yeah Yasuke lost more battles than him, true lol
@@alexandermagnus82 Yep, fought the Taekada clan and everything.
One of the reasons for the controversy is the definition of "samurai" is ambiguous. Originally it referred to lower-ranking nobles who made their living by the martial arts to serve higher-ranking nobles, but during the Warring States period, when the status system was ambiguous, it came to refer to a relatively higher-ranking combatant with the right qualification for mounted combat, and during the Edo period it again became a hereditary status.
Considering that Yasuke's surname is not documented, it is unlikely that he held such a high status, and given that he wasn't killed by Akechi Mitsuhide after Oda Nobunaga's death and was sent to Nanbanji Temple, it is likely that he did not participate in the battle that much.
However, the definition of "samurai" in English is even more ambiguous, and could be anyone who worked in a combat position in medieval Japan. In Japanese, "bushi" is close to this definition.
Yes and no. Yes anyone in combat, meaning yes he is still a samurai but no cause it is that the term wasn't as used back then like how we used it. They were all samurais yes but think of it as a rebranding.
But no u don't need a surename to be a samurai, this one of the biggest lie ever told that no one backed up where they gotten the sources from
The main reason for the controversy is attempts at historical revisionism to make some people feel happy about themselves.
@@kuggacouragegx6093
1. Whether they used samurai or tono or anything else is irrelevant. The concept of a samurai who is no mere soldier but a man of status and vassal existed for centuries already by that time. There was already a clear distinction between random bushi and samurai(bushi of status), as evidenced by the right to daisho.
2. You don't need a surname to be a samurai? Technically/mathematically a possibility but can you name a single samurai without a surname? Samurai class was before all a hereditary class. It was part of your family, your entire family would be a "samurai family" and your sons would also become samurai. How can you pass on your samurai status without a surname? When foreigners became samurai they were also given a Japanese surname, cause it was vital to record which "family/house of samurai" this person belonged to. So if you have a source for your claim, let's see it.
「信長公記」（太田牛一・著）巻14 天正九年（1581）
二月廿三日、きりしたん国より黒坊主参り候。年の齢（よわい）廿六、七と見えたり。惣の身の黒き事、牛の如し。彼（か）の男、健（すく）やかに、器量なり。しかも、強力十の人に勝（すぐ）れたり。伴天連召し列（つ）れ参り、御礼申し上ぐ。誠に御威光を以て、古今に承り及ばざる三国の名物、か様に希有（けう）の物ども、細々拝見、有りがたき御事なり。
「1581年のイエズス会・日本年報」より （ルイス・フロイスの書簡）
復活祭日に続く週の月曜日（1581.3.27 / 天正9.2.23）、信長は都にゐたが、多数の人々がわがカザ（修院）の前に集まって黒奴を見んとしたため騒ぎが甚だしく、投石のため負傷者を出し、また死せんとする者もあった。多数の人が門を衛（まも）ってゐたにかかはらず、これを破ることを防ぐことが困難であった。
もし金儲けのために黒奴を見せ物としたらば、短期間に八千乃至一万クルサドを得ることは容易であらうと皆言った。
信長もこれを観んことを望んで招いた故、パードレ・オルガンチノが同人を連れて行った。大変な騒ぎで、その色が自然であって人工でないことを信ぜず、帯から上の着物を脱がせた。
信長はまた子息達を招いたが、皆非常に喜んだ。今大坂の司令官である信長の甥（信澄）もこれを観て非常に喜び、銭一万（十貫文）を与えた。
「1581年のイエズス会・日本年報」より （ロレンソ・ルシヤの書簡）
パードレ（ヴァリニャーノ）は、黒奴一人を同伴してゐたが、都においてはかつて見たることなき故、諸人皆驚き、これを観んとして来た人は無数であった。信長自身もこれを観て驚き、生来の黒人で、墨を塗ったものでないことを容易に信ぜず、屡々これを観、少しく日本語を解したので、彼と話して飽くことなく、また彼が力強く、少しの芸ができたので、信長は大いに喜んでこれを庇護し、人を附けて市内を巡らせた。彼を殿とするであらうと言ふ者もある。
「1582年のイエズス会・日本年報」より （ルイス・フロイスの書簡）
ビジタドール（ヴァリニャーノ）が信長に贈った黒奴が、信長の死後、世子（信忠）の邸に赴き、相当長い間戦ってゐたところ、明智の家臣が彼に近づいて、恐るることなくその刀を差出せと言ったのでこれを渡した。
家臣はこの黒奴をいかに処分すべきか明智に尋ねたところ、黒奴は動物で何も知らず、また日本人でない故これを殺さず、インドのパードレの聖堂に置けと言った。これによって我等は少しく安心した。
「松平家忠日記」（徳川家康の家臣・天正10.4.19付 / 1582.5.11）
名は弥介、身の丈六尺二寸（約187cm）、黒人男性、身は炭のごとく
（身ハスミノコトク、タケハ六尺二寸、名ハ弥介）
これが弥助について残された真実の歴史的資料の全て。ここに書かれていること以外は全てフェイクか後世の創作。
ここでは弥助は侍であったなどという記録はない。もちろん小姓にもなっていないし、出所不明の刀を拝領したという記述もない。これが全て。
この資料から合理的に解釈するなら、弥助は侍ではなかった。という結論に至る。
Yasuke and Nobunaga were lovers with Nobunaga as the top.
Nobunaga is always on top. :D
Nobunaga's first black waifu.
"I came. I saw. Oda skeeted on my jaw! On my jaw!" - Yasuke
The last samurai wasn't white either.
White weebs are hilarious
Akechi Mitsuhide didn't regard Yasuke as a samurai or a bushi. Yasuke is still just a slave to him, saying "the cafre (black slave) is like an animal and knows nothing, and he's not Japanese so don't kill him".
So much for the historical legendary samurai warrior.
why would Akechi, a man who had just betrayed the person Yasuke worked for, be an authority on this? Can someone from outside the company you work for dictate your position? Whether or not Yasuke was a samurai wasn't up to anyone but oda.
@@doompigg7403 Akechi was subordinate of Oda. Yasuke was not bushi.
If Yasuke was bushi, he should have his own province, but there is no record about it.
In addition, Yasuke was not even warrior, but slave of Oda handed over from Portuguese missionary.
@@doompigg7403 And why would Akechi not acknowledge him as samurai if Oda actually did make him samurai? Akechi had no issue acknowledging the status of all the other samurai in service to Oda.
@@doompigg7403 I don't know, everyone kept calling him a black slave down to his last historical record perhaps?
If Akechi Mitsuhide regarded Yasuke as a samurai, he would've had him killed or asked Yasuke to join his side, don't you think? Instead, Yasuke was returned to his former masters like a child or a property.
Also, if Yasuke was a samurai, will he tolerate such treatment and will he be treated as such?
@@MustardSkaven Exactly.
Also, if Yasuke was a real legendary samurai there should be an answer to these questions:
What are the names of the ones he killed?
What battles was he explicitly mentioned in?
What day and month did he fight?
What is his Japanese last name?
What is the meaning of his last name?
Who did he pay homage in choosing that last name?
What is his kamon?
What is the meaning of his kamon?
Real legendary samurai have at least four of those in check.
Been following you for a while now on insta.. I was wondering whether you might make a good detailed video on the american civil war?
I share your opinion on this.
Go woke go broke
日本人にとって弥助はただの奴隷です！彼が織田信長の敵に捕まったとき「これは動物であり、人ではないので殺す必要もない」と言われて解放されたエピソードがあります。
There is no record of him fighting outside the honnō-ji incident
do you no is just a game
I believe he was most likely a or what we would consider a samurai. Since by dictionary definition a samuria is a warrior retainer to a daimyo and from what we know about him that’s exactly what we was however i don’t think him being a co protag was the right way to go maybe a dlc or something would of been better but ultimately I would have wanted a yasuke game outside of AC I don’t want it limited to this already established world
There is no room for argument.
Yasuke was just SLAVE
NOT samurai
This is truth.
@@どん兵衞-p6p yep looks like u just listen to people online and never read his actual records
Name a slave that got paid for his services
Name a slave given a private residence and status in the high class of society
He was said to only sometimes carry weapons key works sometimes and within a 15 month span that could mean maybe 3 to 7 times but it was not his primary role. He was givens a warriors stipend and made retainer to his daimyo aka a samurai
Samurai have family name, but Yasuke had no family name.
His name, Yasuke, represent the class that he was not Samurai.
In addition, Yasuke did not have katana.
He just had a knife, according to the record of Portuguese report.
There is a actual record that Yasuke was the slave of Nobunaga Oda handed over from Portuguese missionary.
I recommend you to look into Japanese dictionary or primary material written in Japanese.
日本語史料
信長公記
きりしたん国より 黒坊主参り候年之齢廿六七と見えたり惣之身の黒き事牛之如彼男健スクやかに器量也爾シカも強力十之人に勝スグレたり 伴天連召列参御礼申上誠以御威光古今不及承三国之名物か様に希有之物
イエズス会日本年報
黒奴は動物で何も知らず、また日本人でもない故、これを殺さず
@@どん兵衞-p6p actually the “only the high class can have a family name was a law” that wasn’t even strongly enforced and there are many documents with farmers that wrote their last names it wasn’t a requirement to have one that’s not a solid argument and him being a Portuguese slave is fine because he want one once he was hired into nobunagas service that’s why he was paid a stipend you don’t pay a slave and since he was made bushi(warrior) we can use common sense to conclude he was given a katana as a well the shirt sword was an addition to his payment and home. Stop letting your white fantasy bias get in the way of history he was most likely a samurai it’s not a big deal
@@どん兵衞-p6p and as for the Japanese definition 戦士(特に江戸時代の大明の軍人)、武士 it’s literally the same shit