Yasuke Kurosan (Mister Black): The 1st African Samurai in the History of Japan
From Africa to Japan, this is the extraordinary destiny of Yasuke Kurosan, the freed slave turned samurai. Yasuke Kurosan was the first foreign samurai in Japanese history. This African enslaved by the Portuguese, Italian Jesuits, before being freed by a Japanese warlord who offered him the ultimate rank of samurai.
