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Yasuke, the true story of the legendary African Samurai, Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard

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Yasuke, the true story of the legendary African Samurai, Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

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mapsillustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Yasuke

Responsibility statement

Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard

Sub title

the true story of the legendary African Samurai

Summary

The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society. The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an indentured mercenary arriving upon one of the Portuguese ships carrying a new language, a new religion and an introduction to the slave trade. Curiously tall, bald, massively built and black skinned, he was known as a steadfast bodyguard of immense strength and stature, and swiftly captured the interest, and thence the trust, of the most powerful family in all of Japan. Two years later, he vanished. Yasuke is the story of a legend that still captures the imagination of people across the world. It brings to life a little known side of Japan - a gripping narrative about an extraordinary figure in a fascinating time and place

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