LaKeith Stanfield Brings Legendary Black Samurai to Netflix Anime in Yasuke Trailer
In 1579, an African man arrived in Japan as the servant of an Italian Jesuit missionary named Alessandro Valignano. Known as Yasuke, he would reportedly go on to act as favored retainer and bodyguard to lord Oda Nobunaga, eventually entering historical lore as the first foreign-born person to earn the rank of samurai. In Yasukes