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Yasuke In Search Of The African Samurai Thomas Lockley

SKU: BELL-58840846

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Publisher: Hanover Square Press

File Extension: AZW3

File size: 12.06 MB

Author: Thomas Lockley

Language: English

Year: 2019

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Yasuke In Search Of The African Samurai Thomas Lockley by Thomas Lockley instant download after payment.

Warrior. Samurai. Legend.
"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life." —The Washington Post

The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traveled much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child, he had ended up a servant and bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, with whom he traversed India and China learning multiple languages as he went. His arrival in Kyoto, however, literally caused a riot. Most Japanese people had never seen an African man before, and many of them saw him as the embodiment of the black-skinned (in local tradition) Buddha. Among those who were drawn to his presence was Lord Nobunaga, head of the most powerful clan in Japan, who made Yasuke a samurai in his court. Soon, he was learning the traditions of...