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A statue of Yasuke, an African from who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black Samurai who served as a Kashin (家臣, retainer) under the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga. Making of a warrior.
There are no records of Yasuke’s date or country of birth. Most historians say he came from Mozambique but some have suggested other countries such as Ethiopia or Nigeria.
What is known, however, is that Yasuke was sold, taken to Japan by arrived in Japan with an Italian Jesuit named Alessandro Valignano on an inspection tour, and appears in recorded history only between 1579 and 1582.
Nobunaga gave him the name Yasuke; which may have been a Japanese rendering of his original name. More recently it was concluded that Yasuke was a Makua (the largest ethnic group in Mozambique) with the previous name of Yasufe.
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