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Japan in last days None of the
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historical figures
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turn over in their graves as often as a simple
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black guy I am a [ __ ] who in the 15th
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century lived an incredibly colorful life,
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moving from Africa to Japan, taking
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part in the Oda Wars on the Buu Naga and even
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witnessing his hara-kiri and completely
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unexpectedly for himself I [ __ ] became the most
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talked about Personality on the Internet in
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2024 because the
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Ubisoft corporation decided to release a game
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about samurai where he acts as the
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main character on Wikipedia, a
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war of edits immediately began and society
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was divided for some, I [ __ ] is a slave
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who worked for the amusem*nt of the Japanese.
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now, by fakes on Wikipedia, he has been elevated
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to the rank of hero for the second Yasuke, the first and
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only African Samurai is a hero and a
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worthy character for the game, but who
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was Yasuke really?
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counterarguments from social networks
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that refer to serious scientific
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works, mainly such works
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are Shin Koki, a modern biography of
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Oden Buu Nage and records of the Portuguese
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who brought Yasuke to Japan and brought them in the
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next couple of minutes, we will tell you who
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Yasuke really was, but before we
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begin, I would like to clarify something
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Samurai Minamoto Tamme Tomo was
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so accurate that he could
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shoot through the kneecaps of enemies from great distances.
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Samurai Ashikaga Eteru was the best
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swordsman of his time and broke a
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dozen and a half balls before he could be
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defeated. Ronin Miyamoto Musashi is a
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classic example of a samurai mercenary
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living with the help of a sword.
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is tightly associated in Japan with
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the word Samurai, and all this means that the
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history of the land of the rising sun
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is full of legendary samurai about
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whom thousands of anime have already been filmed and
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tens of thousands of manga have been written and who
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look like a much more logical
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option for the role of the main character. Many
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believe that If to make a game that
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claims to be connected with the history of Japan, it
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would be more logical to pull out one of the
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classic samurai about whose life
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everything is known. Such a point of view
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undoubtedly makes sense. Therefore, in
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the comments, we ask you not to incite
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meaningless conflicts and also remember
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that Ubisoft is a commercial studio
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that, of course, has its sights set on Yasuke
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in order to provoke more discussions on the Internet
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turned out great, but this is
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already content for gaming channels, we have a
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historical channel and we will talk about
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Yasuke in the language of dry facts,
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they begin with the fact that Yasuke was born somewhere in the
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thirties of the 15th century in the yard of the Age of
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great geographical discoveries that are
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usually associated with the slave trade
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to North America is wrong
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three times at once, firstly, the vast majority of
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slaves did not go to North America but to
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South America because secondly, the main
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slave traders were not Britain but
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Portugal and they transported slaves, of course,
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closer to their South American colonies
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Well, the third mistake Believes that slaves
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sailed only to both Americas,
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the slave trade in the Indian Ocean also
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flourished, it is often called
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Barbary after the name of the coast, and
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slaves went to northern Africa, the Arabian
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Peninsula and even to India, in fact, everything
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indicates that at one time the Yaski
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learned about This being the case, he
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most likely came from Mozambique or another
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Portuguese colony in East Africa
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because suddenly
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Yasuke was not the first African in Japan. And all of them in those
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days came to the country, plus or minus a
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similar route through Portuguese
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traders Portugal during the 15th century
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traded with the land of the rising sun
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as part of the so-called trade with the
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southern barbarians, tons of jewelry went to Europe in this way.
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And in Japan,
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tobacco, firearms, religion and,
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of course, slaves in limited quantities,
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and the last two categories
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often walked side by side in Japan they really wanted to
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spread their religion and Jesuits are a
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Catholic order governed directly by the
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Pope since piracy in the
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east flourished in those days and
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Europeans were not always treated well and the
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Jesuits mostly traveled
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accompanied by guards, plus or minus, they went
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to Japan and ended up here, versions
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differ but only in terms of
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status of an African, someone says that he
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would be a direct slave, a guard of the Jesuits,
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someone uses the softer word
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servant. But in reality, those who are not right are
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simply because in fact, on the
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territory of Japan, all foreigners were considered slaves.
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The East is a delicate matter
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and that the Japanese that the Chinese feudal lords throughout
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history treated foreigners
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specifically. What is the Chinese rite of
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kou tou worth when anyone who arrived was obliged to
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take an oath to the emperor, which was a problem for
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diplomats representing other countries.
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In general, opinions are
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divided here. Thomas Skli in his book about
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Yasuke notes that by the time of arrival in
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Japan he was no longer a slave; the argument is
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that Yeski was already a skilled
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warrior and a very valuable guard, and also
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that the sources do
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not say anything about Yeski’s slavery. There are no counterarguments in the sources
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either, but this is precisely what hints that
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Yeski was most likely a slave because In the 15th
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century, a dark-skinned guard of a white
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master is, by default, more likely to be a slave
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than not, so we believe that here
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Mr. Locklear has his heart and slightly
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bends the facts in a convenient direction.
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Moreover, the arrival of other Africans in
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Japan as slaves is quite
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documented. And the rapo guard in the
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15th century century, this is also a common thing in Morocco, a little
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later even a special black
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guard will appear, which in fact consisted of
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slaves but was considered elite. Well, then
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the most interesting thing is that Eski, as part of his
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delegation of Jesuits, met with the
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legendary ode to Nabu Naga Japan of those
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times was a very fun place in the yard, the so
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-called period Sengoku is also
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called the period of the warring provinces, because
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from the 15th to the beginning of the 15th centuries, Japan was
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one large battlefield for the royal battle of
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feudal lords. Officially, the end of
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fragmentation is considered to be the establishment of the
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power of the Tokugawa in 1603 and the unification of
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the country. But many historians call the
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unifier of Japan, who played a
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decisive role in this issue, was Nabu
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Nagu. The samurai devoted his whole life to the issue of the
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territorial integrity of the country; he not
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only conquered the rebellious kingdoms, but also
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introduced competent reforms into them and even
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advocated free trade with
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foreigners. A distinctive feature of Nabu
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Naga is considered to be his ignorance of centuries-old
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traditions. The samurai often took people into the
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army for their talent, in fact, this is the
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argument and used by those who call
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Yaski a samurai, he met Nabu Naga
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in 1581 and for unknown reasons
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moved from the Jesuits to him, this is the second
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point of schism where Thomas Locklear that Yaski
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was hired to serve as a samurai and
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opponents claim that the
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most common resale of a slave took place, which
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for Nabu Naga was a wonder and lifted his
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spirits; here it is objectively impossible to find the truth
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because all arguments are
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based on assumptions. But in
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fact, this doesn’t matter, because further the
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Jesuits themselves wrote in their Chronicles
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that Yaski received the position of kosho from ODA on buu Naga
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And later that Thomas Lock Is it possible
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that Shin Cho Koki, the chronicles of the Mida clan,
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will write that the Yeski will be given a Sword and a
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fighter's scholarship, no other definitions are
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used in relation to Yasuke directly as a
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samurai, no chronicles call him,
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however, as well as directly as a slave, too, and everything
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here falls into place because kosho is
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vague term for the Lord's servant, it
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could be a secretary, a mistress, a
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security guard. Well, the fact that Yasuke was given a
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fighter's scholarship hints that he
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hardly changed his role and became for Odon Boone
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something like a guard's squire. Which
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again fits in with what is
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Yaski's role in in principle, he arrived in Japan
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on the basis of exactly two of these
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facts in the samurai Yasuke and they write down that they allegedly
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gave him a scholarship. How the samurai was
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settled as a fighter, which means he really is a
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Samurai, and opponents, in turn,
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say that just as he was a slave, a servant, and a
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guard, he remained and in fact In fact,
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one does not cancel the other at all, on the
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one hand, the Samurai is, as it were, also a
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slave of his master who, in an amicable way,
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must commit a siege without the owner, and on the
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other hand, the fighter’s stipend does not in any way cancel the
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purely subordinate status in which
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Yasuke was, because slaves and samurai are
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united by the fact that in
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principle, they were not free. Samurai in this case,
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if anything, received the contradictory status of
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Ronin. So we can say for sure that the
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eski most likely worked with his
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muscles. And in what role formally is this
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already pure Bolster Bolo tsu
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someone would give the official proud title of
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samurai to the slave of the eski But on the other hand, at least
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partially, he did exactly the same work
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that Samurai often did, so
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no matter what you call it, everything will be In a
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sense, correct, but it does not deny this
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statement and what happened next. And
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then there was an incident in the temple of Hon
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Nozi ode to Nabu Naga sent the entire army to the
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next company and he, accompanied by
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only a handful of associates, stopped in
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Kyoto and Katie Mitsuki was his vassal and the
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man who was supposed to go
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to the front instead betrayed Nabu Naga
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took the temple where it was located by storm and
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forced him to commit hara-kiri among
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his associates who held the last
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battle on Buna was also Yasuke, which again
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forces supporters of the samurai yaski theory
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to say that it was the high rank of
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yaski that allowed him to be there; this, of
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course, is also easily refuted where else to
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be
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and koshu his master, how could yaski not be next to him
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in the temple in absolutely any
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role, most likely the role
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was really one of strength and he took
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part in the master’s last race with his muscles, but
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again this does not mean anything at all.
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At the time of his death, Caesar also
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had slaves nearby, but this does not mean that all of them
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were elite
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praetorians samurai in order to go through
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everything that he went through about the further
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fate of the African, nothing is known at all, there are
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absolutely tions that begin,
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so it’s easier to dwell on the fact that,
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Ironically, the positions of the warring parties
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do not contradict each other in any way. Yaski
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could easily have been a slave who performed
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all the same functions that often
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performed by Samurai and on the other hand,
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in order to be close to Nabu Nagi at the time of
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his death, Yasuke did not have to be a
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samurai; this is only a question of wording
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that for people of the past had
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no meaning at all here. Perhaps the
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main point lies: we often call
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people of the past by terms that are
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interesting only to us and in the past,
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more than 90% of the population often lived richer, and
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at the same time there were noble warriors with the
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highest statuses who humiliated and
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eke out a miserable existence. The label
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that we put on a historical
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figure will in no way cancel out who she
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was or wasn’t, and Yaski definitely
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lived. But that’s why he was whether he was a samurai or
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not, his life didn’t really depend, but the fact
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that he was made the main character of the game was a step that was
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most controversial and obviously
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aimed at free advertising. The
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history of Japan is full of legendary
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samurai whose personalities and exploits are clearly
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known whether you buy the game or
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return hang in there Let me know in
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the comments and that’s all for us until we
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meet again friends
