Real Japanese Historian Yu Hirayama says that Yasuke was a Samurai “There seems to be a lot of talk about Yasuke, a black man who served Nobunaga Oda. Historical records about him are quite scarce but, there is no doubt that he was a "samurai" serving Nobunaga.”
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K・HIRAYAMA
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なんか、織田信長に仕えた黒人の弥助の話題になっているみたい。彼に関する史料はかなり乏しいが、信長に仕える「侍」身分であったことはまちがいなかろう。出身の身分がどうであれ、主人が「侍」分に取り立てれば、そうなれたのが中世（戦国）社会。なんでそんなことが言えるかといえば、①信長より「
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