The First Black Samurai, Yasuke !

Have you ever heard of Yasuke? Yasuke, was reconized as the first Black Samurai warrrior in Japan. This brother arrived in Japan in the 1500's and quickly became elevated to Samurai status. He was an imposing figure who stood 6 feet 4 inches, which was a full foot taller then the Japanese population at that time. He was said to have the strenth of 10 men and to this day. There is statue of him in Japan that thousands visit every year.

[noLucas]

There is no historical evidence of "Black samurai Yasuke" in Japan.
Moreover Yasuke doesn't have family name. True samurai were the ruling class of Japan, similar to Western knights. Those without a family name were merely footman of samurai.
Having a family name is indispensable condition to be a samurai in Japan. Thus, Yasuke, who does not have a family name, cannot be considered a samurai.

[ひろひろ-yo]

Please do not change the history of other countries.
The book written by Thomas Lockley is fiction.
There are very few primary sources about Yasuke.
We are stating facts.
Please think carefully.
We do not want a rift with foreigners.
他国の歴史を改変しないでください。
トーマスロックリーの書いた本は創作です。
ヤスケに関する一次資料はわずかしかありません。
事実を述べています。
よく考えてください。
外国人との亀裂は望んでいないです。

[kabayakiunagi]

All the information here is fake. Nonsense. Yasuke was nothing more than a porter and had no achievements in Japan. Can’t you tell from the AI synthesized photo? Photography was invented in 1827, while Yasuke existed around 1580. It’s foolish to be fooled by such a stupid video.

[kaycarter]

There are no photos of Yasuke. He lived long before cameras and film were invented

[bartosz]

Imagine how poor is your history that you need to steal history of others

[壇まゆみ]

I'm angry at the spread of false history.fromJP

[do]

まさしくこれはタイムトラベラーです。
1.
2.弥助が生きた時代にカメラはまだ発明されてません。

弥助は偉大だ。黒人初のタイムトラベラーの侍で、しかもゲイ。

[Winniewall]

Leave It Up To Hollywood And He'll Be Played By Actor Tom Cruise... Oh... Wait - That Was Done Before. Ijs 🥴

[mr.masses]

These AI Images are Something else...!

[poloshirtsamurai]

Would a legendary samurai warrior:
- allow his old masters to offer himself as a gift to Nobunaga who likes novelties?
- allow others to strip him naked and scrubbed to see if he's really black?
- allow himself to be paraded around like a freak?
- only have a short sword?
- relinquish his weapons because the people who killed Nobunaga asked for it?
- and a freed man choose bondage again over death?
- be spared by his enemies because they think he's just a sorry animal and knows nothing?
- go back to his old masters when his new master died?
- disagree with the Killmonger quote "...death was better than bondage."?

[craftcocktail-zk]

Photography did not exist during the Warring States period

Modern photography was not developed until 1825

[ssilent]

“We wuz kangz n shet” to “we wuz samurai n shet”

[edwinhenry]

How could all Asians have originated from black people and he be the first black samurai? That does not make sense.

[Chiniquy-xrls]

Photography was not invented, until almost 200 years, after Yasuke had died.

[williamrichardson]

Lmao. The first camera came out in 1816... AI fake bullshit to promote black, again. So the photo of the first African black samurai warrior was taken nearly 250 years before photography camera was even invented??? Lmao😂. So fake history.

[namo]

My ancestors were of the warrior class. From my perspective, what UBI and Mr. Thomas Lockley are doing this time is really lame. Seriously!

My maternal grandmother's family was the parent clan of the Matsudaira family, a samurai family that served the Matsudaira family all through the Edo period, but what they did for generations during the Edo period was financial management, not martial arts-related work. They were a warrior clan of the Fukui clan, and they were packed in Edo all through the Edo period.
I think the Matsudaira family's parent clan is probably one of the highest ranked samurai clans there, but even I, a descendant of the Matsudaira family, honestly do not know now what my ancestors were doing in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Of course, I might be able to find out if I research it all, but it would require a great deal of research, which I am not willing to do.
The only name we know is Yasuke, and the primary source material is only a few lines in total, and there is no mention of his military service or that he was taken up by a samurai.
And yet, they are still saying, "Our ancestors were samurai in the Azuchi-Momoyama period! They were strong! ...What, so you want me to show you my family tree? I bet the Japanese erased all that!" I honestly feel nothing but disgust and contempt for those who say such things.

In Japan during the Edo period (1603-1867), a profession called "fake genealogy chart writing" was popular.
They would write "fake family trees" for the common people who wanted to indulge themselves in self-satisfaction by having genealogical charts drawn up claiming that they were descendants of emperors or famous military commanders. So, all over Japan, there are a great number of "descendants of the Emperor, " "descendants of Takeda Shingen, " and "descendants of Minamoto no Yoritomo. Of course, professional appraisers can easily find out that they are fake.
The people who are clinging to Lockley's "Yasuke = Black Samurai" theory are doing the same thing as the people who are enjoying looking at the fake family tree.

Frankly I didn't want to talk about my roots.
But now the situation is too much for me to remain silent.

[theymightbeuptown]

This story is prob not cap. He likely was a historical figure, but I'd have to research it. But you should at least advise the viewer that, that isn't his likeness on your thumbnail as photography didn't come along til much later. If, as you've stated in the description, there really is a statue of him in Japan, was there not an image of it available that you'd have wanted to provide?

[marutsuno]

There is so little information about Yasuke that I think it is accurate to say that we don't really know much about him. I think Yasuke is well known in Japan to people who are familiar with history and anime, but I think he is not that well known in general. However, ironically, I think it has become more well-known in Japan due to the recent uproar surrounding Assassin's Creed.
By the way, I have never heard the Japanese saying that a samurai needs black blood to be brave. And as far as I know, I don't think there is a bronze statue of Yasuke in Japan. In any case, whether he was a samurai or not, there is no doubt that he was an interesting person who existed in medieval Japan.

[Dr.Smith]

Yasuki! The name speaks for itself.
(Yah-suki) i can vouch for the yah, , in yah-suki, but (suki) itself is another matter.
We can go back hundreds or even thousands of years to define what suki truly means.
The oldest definition or origin of the word suki means a fondness of someone or something.
The original story of (yah-suki) starts in 1579 when a Portuguese missionary named alliessandro valignano came upon the shores of japan with (yah yah) a Portuguese slave from Portugal and presented him as a gift to oda nabunaga who ruled central japan.
History tells us that in 1492, the so-called "jews" were expelled from the Iberian peninsula and sold as slaves into parts of Africa.
So we can comfortably assume that yah-suki was part of the effects of the spanish inquisition.
Look up the yah-yah family of spain and Portugal. The results may surprise you.

[cecemeadows]

All asians and samurai were "black" originally.