African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northern Africa to the heights of Japanese society When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had a…
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