More than 400 years on, the story of the first African samurai still resonates in Japan and around the world.
Hong Kong When feudal Japan's most powerful warlord Nobunaga Oda met Yasuke, a black slave-turned-retainer, in 1581, he believed the man was a god.
Oda had never seen an African before. And like the locals in Japan's then-capital of Kyoto, he was awed by Yasuke's height, build and skin tone, according to Thomas Lockley, the author of"African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan." "When Yasuke got to Kyoto , there was a massive riot.
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