A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.
Soon, Yasuke was learning the traditions of martial arts and ascending the upper echelons of Japanese society, where he would live on to become a legend for the centuries to come..
Among those drawn to him was Lord Nobunaga, head of the most powerful clan in Japan, who made Yasuke a samurai in his court.
Others saw him as the black-skinned Buddha.
Some believed he was a god.
Most Japanese people had never seen an African man before.
Kidnapped as a child in Northeast Africa, he served as a bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, traveling to India and China, and eventually arriving in Japan, where everything would change.
When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traversed much of the known world.
Legend.
Samurai.
Warrior. -- 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.
A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life
