The Truth about Yasuke
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Discover the truth about Yasuke, the legendary Black "Samurai". Uncover the fascinating story behind this historical figure in this video and whether or not he is a true samurai.
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Except people knew of Yasuke as far back as 2007 here in the west because the anime series Afro Samurai directly said it was based somewhat on the concept of Yasuke, so the 2012 beginning of the fake is fake.
@Selvokaz I remember knowing about yasuke around that time as well so idk what the people saying he was invented in the 2010s are talking about.
after a "hiphop remix" incident, it was clear that ubi doesn't care about history or anything else but pandering to modern audiences
it's japanese trap that has been used in multiple anime including Afro samurai and samurai Champloo.
Just want to clarify something, when you refer to Yasuke as a servant instead of a slave when he was own by Valignano are you trying to be PC? Because to me it feels like you are diminishing his hardships...
@lizjohnson9081 Nah, I wasn't trying to sound PC screw pc culture. His hardships are mostly shrouded in mystery due to his origins being unkown and the documents from both sides having called him different things. Slave, servant, etc. I just felt like anything from those documents is fine to say. Servant was just what I felt like saying. Wasn't trying to diminish them at all. Sorry if it seemed that way, not my intention at all.
Weird way to throw an insult. Maybe you weren't, but that is how I kind of read it.
Yasuke has a pretty mysterious background. From some of my findings during the initial drama, they don't even know what he was before he arrived in Japan. There are assumptions and speculation that he could have been a Monk, Sellsword, or ship slave. We honestly don't know, as all the recounts are 2nd or 3rd hand. Yasuke himself was rarely, between years, recorded by someone who is intimately knew him. A lot of it is small snippets of someone hearing from someone else.
Even the story of Yasuke being in Japan is highly limited. We know he was there. We just don't actually know what he was doing there besides proving black people exist to Oda. After Oda dies, its super murky and ambiguous. The book that 90% of what modern pop culture yasuke is based on was entirely 3rd hand accounts. Also many of it was the author possibly speculating what could have been, not what had been. This was a author who also knew very little of Japan btw.
Just to elaborate more. Literally all western information about Yasuke comes from or mostly comes from those books written by european author who heard 2rd hand accounts from his friend. The parts that come from Japan are very obscure writings, and have tiny mentions. Like he was there, and that was it. Nothing on what he did, why he was there, or even how long he was at a place for. That is where a lot of speculations turn to assumptions turned into misinformed facts.
If you tried to look deeper into the JP side, searching through JP libraries, forums, and expert dialogue on it, the Japanese completely don't know the truth themselves. They know he was gifted a ceremonial blade, but we don't know what kind, what for, and the actual lore to it. We know he was given a sum of money, we don't know if its actually a stipend, a pay, or gift. Even the form of payment has complications, was it for work, status, duty, servitude etc etc.
One thing the Japanese agree on is that he was not a samurai. The reason why, is because all samurai no matter how high or low, was wrote about in extensive detail. The samurai class were nobles if anointed by a feudal lord. Some one of unique favor to Oda like Yasuke, would have had extensive writing about him if he was anointed as a Samurai. It would have been a very big deal, but there are no recordings or writings about it. Therefore the Japanese do not believe he was an actual Samurai.
I would be care about western media, they seem to push that he was a Samurai, and kind of disrespect Japanese history on Samurais in general. There is a big disconnect and misunderstanding about it. Another thing is that even Japanese sites that are politically tied or funded by western media, will also push the same story. I was baffled when I found out there are western Japanese history books written by the west, that they say is taught in Japan, but actual Japanese history books are completely different.
It's fine to mythicize a historic figure, but we should not be assuming myth is history.
TL;DR Not trying to take away or say Yasuke hardship is embellished. Just giving my honest thoughts after thoughts after several hours of research a while back. Yasuke simply has too little to his history to actually even figure out what those hardships were.
If you do want to see my findings, feel free to message me through this account, and I will link my all findings. You will have to use translators though.
@@yummychips_ How did you write this long and YT didn't delete it? wow like 7 articles, mine is just five lines with no sensitive word and it deleted by YT.
@@yummychips_ wasn't meant to be an insult that is why I asked for clarification. Odessa said a couple of times how Yasuke was a servant and then when reading the description Yasuke was described as a slave. This is putting aside if this is real history or not. It felt like to me calling a victim of assault an "opponent" rather than "victim" because you didn't want to use a negative word to describe them.
Also, I didn't take it as an insult. You're good!
Didn't need to see the trailer. All I needed to see was the pitch for "live services." Assassin's creed can die because of that. Let it.
Live service is a big franchise killer for me. Wish they would stop, but the gaming community keeps falling for it.
Great vid, i ddin't find the stuff you found, but I found other academic sites and libraries that talked about it in similar vein.
IDK if you tried to google using JP locales before, but you can find sites and information that way that is directly from Japan. Wikipedia unfortunately this time only has western linked stuff. I am also not trying to say its a conspiracy, but when you already saw what happens when you search the roots and how it ties back to that one European author.
Edit: When I say western linked, even the JP sites on the wiki, if you root out the connections. They are mostly, if not entirely, western tied.
@yummychips_ Also don't believe in the conspiracy stuff so I tried using only the documents and their translations due to the weird Wikipedia stuff including their citations that did not link to specific documents and only linked to news websites or blog type websites
In the west they say Yasuke carried Nobunaga's weapons, but the actual japanese is 御道具 In general it usually meant "Every day used items" such as tea sets, plates, pots, sake sets etc.
Or they point out that he was paid a stipend received a short sword and a residence, but this "fuchi" 扶持 which gets translated as "stipend," some think it's a special pay for samurai. Fuchi is the abbreviation of Fuchimai 扶持米. It's a standard stipend of 5 gou (roughly 4 cups) of rice per day. Fuchi is not unique to Bushi. 1 years worth is about 1石8斗 (1koku 8to) which is about 270kg of rice.
You can find definitions of 扶持 in Japanese with ease. here is an excerpt:
"武士以外のものにも，褒賞的に扶持が与えられた。例えば特別の技能を買われた能楽師や力士，行政の末端に参与して功労のあった町年寄，殿様に多額の献金をした豪商，善行で表彰された百姓などに，生涯あるいは臨時的に扶持を支給し，あわせて帯刀を許す場合があった。" 株式会社平凡社「改訂新版 世界大百科事典
Roughly translating, "for a reward Fushi was given to those that were not Bushi. For example those with special skills such as Noh performers or sumo wresters, towns people that had contributed to governing, rich merchants that provided donations, farmers rewarded for good deeds were paid life long or temporarily, and also allowed to bear a sword as well. " Heibonsha corporation world encyclopedia
Receiving Fuchi is not evidence of samurai nor bushi. It's a standard pay that was paid to many other people who were not bushi as well.
What are you playing and is it PC or console?
ZZZ
Pc, ps5, android
@@boulderbkb1536 Zoneless Zen Zero, playing on ps5
He was taken to the battle but there is no record of nobunaga fighting. The battle was over when nobunaga and yasuke arrived because his son already beat Takeda. There is no record of Yasuke fighting anywhere. The closest thing is after Nobunaga died when akechi's men was in nobunaga's heir's residence yasuke was standing with a sword.
I traslated it on a different channel:
After Nobunaga's death, when they went to the residence of his heir, the black man was standing firm so Akechi's vassal with no fear approached the man and commanded him to give up his sword, and he gave up his sword. When the vassal asked Akechi whether or not to execute him, Akechi said that "no, the black man is an animal and doesn't know anything, and not Japanese so return him to the shrine of the padre of India."
Yasuke did not fight. He stood with a sword and gave it up when commanded.
Yasuke was freed by the Portugues already back in India, before even meeting the Jesuits and going to Japan.
He was employed by the Jesuit, as a servent.
Even this Lockly guy egnoliged that in his Book.
Its like why are peopel so hellbend on making the Portuguese extra Rxsist.
But let's go to the end of the Story Nobunaga dies and what does the Yasuke Samurai doo?
He goes back first to the Jesuits and later to the Portugues.
Now why would a freed Slxve turned Samurai do that?
Unless he is actually friends with the Portugues.
The same Portugues the told him how to fight because they did buy him at 14 years old, we know that. And again they gave him his freedom to.
Yasuke was a real person, a historical fact
The current version of Yasuke's activities is based on a fictional book speculated by Professor Lockley.
Transforming a young black man from the past into a legendary samurai to make money
Lockley is an alchemist lol.
Honestly this entire thing is just stuff being blown out of proportion so we don't get angry about Ubisoft trying to sell us a video game for 130$, doing stupid FOMO or whatever. If anything be it true or not it's still doesn't matter since the AC series has always used history as a playground not fact... I mean one of the biggest plot points of AC games was about reliving memories to find an apples of eden which was just ancient alien mind control artifacts, like where historical accuracy in that?
@cooldudeninja0219 I know right, I didn't know the precursor civilization had such advanced technology!
Now you're onto something 🤔🤔esp about that game prices
I wonder if this video is about him being a samurai or if its about propaganda? Because dude was literally a Samurai, hella badass, and even trusted deeply by Oda Nobunaga.
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The true story of yasuke is that he was a strong slave with dark skin that nobunaga took a liking to. Yasuke survived one of the most violent periods of Japanese History under a ruler that discarded/killed retainers on whims. He survived only on his wits and charms and some tricks he knew, not some made up martial prowess. When this ruler died, he was spared because he was a performer not a warrior. This whole period was 15 months.
And u were there to see all this???😂😂😂😂damn jealous is a hell of a drug