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Yasuke was a man from Mozambique who served briefly under [[Oda Nobunaga]]. He was brought to Japan initially by [[Alessandro Valignano]] in [[1579]]. After an incident in [[1581]] where [[Kyoto]] residents forced their way into a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] residence in their eagerness to witness this black man firsthand, the African man was summoned by Oda Nobunaga, who wished to see/meet him himself. Granting the man some monetary sum, he dubbed him Yasuke and took him into his service. Yasuke accompanied Nobunaga into battle on at least one occasion; after Nobunaga's death, Yasuke was captured by the forces of [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] but was ultimately released. Little is known of his subsequent fate.
==References==
*Leupp, Gary. "Images of Black People in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan, 1543-1900." ''Japan Forum'' 7:1 (1995). p2.
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