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1. 1. African Samurai

   The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

   

   A tightly researched narrative that reconstructs the life of Yasuke, an African who arrived in Japan with Jesuit missionaries in the late 16th century and rose to become a retainer of the warlord Oda Nobunaga. Drawing on Jesuit letters, Japanese chronicles, and archival material, it traces his mysterious origins, dramatic rise from outsider to armed samurai, his role in Nobunaga’s court and the turbulence around the Honnō-ji Incident, and the ways his story has been mythologized while probing themes of race, identity, and cross-cultural encounter in feudal Japan.