Yasuke, the Glossary
Yasuke (弥助 / 弥介) was a man of African origin who served as a samurai to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident.[1]
Table of Contents
117 relations: Aera (magazine), Afro Samurai, Akechi Mitsuhide, Alessandro Valignano, Anime News Network, Arc System Works, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Bantu peoples, Black people in Japan, Blitz the Ambassador, Bloomsbury Publishing, Byōbu, Carnival of São Paulo, Chadwick Boseman, CNN, Daijisen, Daimyo, Deadline Hollywood, Dinka people, Doug Miro, East Africa, East Asia, East Indies, Echizen Province, Encyclopædia Britannica, Folding screen, Foreign Policy, François Solier, Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino, Goa, Gregory Widen, Guilty Gear Strive, Gyōji, Hashiba Hidekatsu, Honnō-ji Incident, HuffPost, Hyouge Mono, Inheritance, Italians, Iwanami Shoten, Japanese archipelago, Japanese sword, Jean Crasset, Jesuits, Kafir, Kai Province, Kanō Naizen, Khoisan, Kochi, Koei Tecmo, ... Expand index (67 more) »
- 16th-century African people
- Foreign samurai in Japan
- Oda retainers
Aera (magazine)
Aera, formerly known as Asahi Journal, is a Japanese weekly magazine printed in gravure, published by Asahi Shimbun.
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Afro Samurai
is a Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series written and illustrated by manga artist Takashi Okazaki.
Akechi Mitsuhide
, first called Jūbei from his clan and later from his title, was a Japanese samurai general of the Sengoku period. Yasuke and Akechi Mitsuhide are Oda retainers and samurai.
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Alessandro Valignano
Alessandro Valignano, S.J., sometimes Valignani (Chinese: 范禮安 Fàn Lǐ’ān; February 1539 – January 20, 1606), was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary born in Chieti, part of the Kingdom of Naples, who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism to the Far East, and especially to Japan.
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Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan.
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Arc System Works
, commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama.
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Assassin's Creed Shadows
Assassin's Creed Shadows is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft, set to release in November 2024.
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Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.
Black people in Japan
are Japanese residents or citizens of sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Blitz the Ambassador
Samuel Bazawule (born 19 April 1982), known professionally as Blitz Bazawule and Blitz the Ambassador, is a Ghanaian filmmaker, author, visual artist, rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Byōbu
are Japanese folding screens made from several joined panels, bearing decorative painting and calligraphy, used to separate interiors and enclose private spaces, among other uses.
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Carnival of São Paulo
The Carnival of São Paulo (Carnaval de São Paulo) is a major Brazilian Carnival.
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Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Aaron Boseman (November 29, 1976August 28, 2020) was an American actor.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Daijisen
The is a general-purpose Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan in 1995 and 1998.
Daimyo
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. Yasuke and Daimyo are samurai.
Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Dinka people
The Dinka people (Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan.
Doug Miro
Doug Miro (born January 20, 1972) is an American screenwriter based in Los Angeles.
East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
East Indies
The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery.
Echizen Province
was a province of Japan in the area that is today the northern portion of Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Folding screen
A folding screen, also known as pingfeng, is a type of free-standing furniture consisting of several frames or panels, which are often connected by hinges or by other means.
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.
François Solier
François Solier (1558 – 16 October 1628) was a French Jesuit, head of the college of Limoges, preacher, translator of spiritual works into French and author of historical books.
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Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino
Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino (1530 – 22 April 1609) was an Italian missionary with the Society of Jesus, of Nanban period (1543–1650).
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Goa
Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.
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Gregory Widen
Gregory Widen is an American screenwriter and film director.
Guilty Gear Strive
is a fighting video game developed and published by Arc System Works.
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Gyōji
A is a referee employed by the Japan Sumo Association, responsible for a variety of activities which concern the organisation of the sport in general and the refereeing of matches, as well as the preservation of professional sumo culture, deeply rooted in Shinto traditions.
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Hashiba Hidekatsu
was a Japanese samurai, also known as Oda Hidekatsu, the fourth son of the famed feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga and was adopted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at a young age. Yasuke and Hashiba Hidekatsu are samurai.
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Honnō-ji Incident
The was the assassination of Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto on 21 June 1582 (2nd day of the sixth month, Tenshō 10).
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HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
Hyouge Mono
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by.
Inheritance
Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.
Italians
Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.
Iwanami Shoten
is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.
Japanese archipelago
The Japanese archipelago (Japanese:, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan.
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Japanese sword
A is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan.
Jean Crasset
Jean Crasset (b. at Dieppe, France, 3 January 1618; d. at Paris, 4 January 1692) was a French Jesuit theologian, known as an ascetical writer.
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Kafir
Kafir (kāfir; كَافِرُون, كُفَّار, or كَفَرَة; كَافِرَة; كَافِرَات or كَوَافِر) is an Arabic term in Islam which refers to a person who disbelieves the God in Islam, denies his authority, rejects the tenets of Islam, or simply is not a Muslim—one who does not believe in the guidance of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Kai Province
was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Yamanashi Prefecture.
Kanō Naizen
was a part of the Japanese family of painters, the Kanō school.
Khoisan
Khoisan, or Khoe-Sān, is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Hottentots") and the Sān peoples (also called "Bushmen").
Kochi
Kochi, also known by its former name Cochin, is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea.
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Koei Tecmo
is a Japanese video game, amusement and anime holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Koei and Tecmo.
Kyoto
Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.
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Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
LaKeith Stanfield
LaKeith Lee Stanfield (born August 12, 1991) is an American actor and musician.
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LeSean Thomas
LeSean Thomas (born 1975) is an American television animation producer, director, animator, comic book artist, writer, character designer, and storyboard artist, based in Meguro, Tokyo.
Lionsgate
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (also known as Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, and doing business as Lionsgate) is a Canadian-American entertainment company currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Lloyd Braun
Lloyd Braun (born 1958) is an American media executive and attorney.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Luís Fróis
Luís Fróis (1532 – 8 July 1597) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and missionary who worked in Asia, most notably Japan, during the second half of the 16th century.
MAPPA
is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Suginami, Tokyo.
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Matsudaira Ietada (Fukōzu)
, also known as Tomomo no Suke was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Michael De Luca
Michael De Luca (born August 13, 1965) is an American film studio executive, film producer and screenwriter.
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Mocidade Alegre
Grêmio Recreativo Cultural Social Escola de Samba Mocidade Alegre, popularly known simply as Mocidade Alegre, is a samba school from São Paulo, Brazil.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Nanban-ji
Nanban-ji (南蛮寺, also pronounced Nanbandera) is a name applied to spaces or structures used by Christian missionaries and Japanese Christian converts in the early history of the Catholic Church in Japan.
National Diet Library
The is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world.
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Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
Nioh
is an action role-playing video game developed by Team Ninja.
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Nioh 2
is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by Team Ninja.
Nobunaga Concerto
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ayumi Ishii.
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Oda clan
The is a Japanese samurai family who were daimyo and an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century.
Oda Nobunaga
was a Japanese daimyō and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods.
Oda Nobutada
was a samurai and the eldest son of Oda Nobunaga, who fought in many battles during the Sengoku period of Japan. Yasuke and Oda Nobutada are samurai.
Ohta Publishing
is a Japanese publishing company.
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Portuguese Mozambique
Portuguese Mozambique (Moçambique Portuguesa) or Portuguese East Africa (África Oriental Portuguesa) were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony.
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Richie Campbell (actor)
Richard Campbell (born 8 February 1983) is a British actor.
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Rinpa school
is one of the major historical schools of Japanese painting.
Sakai City Museum
is located within Daisen Park, in Sakai-ku, Sakai City, in Osaka Prefecture.
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Samba school
A samba school (Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club.
Samba-enredo
Samba-enredo, also known as samba de enredo, is a sub-genre of modern samba made specifically by a samba school for the festivities of Brazilian Carnival.
Samurai
were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.
Samurai Warriors 5
is a hack and slash game by Koei Tecmo, and a reboot of the Samurai Warriors series, part of the long-running Warriors series of hack and slash games published by Koei Tecmo.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
Sengoku period
The, is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Seppuku
, also called, is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment.
Shaku (unit)
or Japanese foot is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese, originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger (compare span).
Shūsaku Endō
was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic.
Shibata Katsuie
or was a Japanese samurai and military commander during the Sengoku period. Yasuke and Shibata Katsuie are Oda retainers.
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Shinchō Kōki
is a chronicle of Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo of Japan's Sengoku period.
Shogakukan
is a Japanese publisher of comics, magazines, light novels, dictionaries, literature, non-fiction, home media, and other media in Japan.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
South Sudan
South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
Spec script
A spec script, also known as a speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned and unsolicited screenplay.
Stipend
A stipend is a regular fixed sum of money paid for services or to defray expenses, such as for scholarship, internship, or apprenticeship.
Suzuri-bako
Suzuri-bako (硯箱; "inkstone box") are a type of Japanese writing box.
Syfy
Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
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Tachi
A is a type of sabre-like traditionally made Japanese sword (''nihonto'') worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
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Takashi Okazaki
(born March 18, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist, visual designer and graphic designer, most notable for writing and illustrating the manga series Afro Samurai.
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Takeda clan
The was a Japanese samurai clan active from the late Heian period until the late 16th century. Yasuke and Takeda clan are samurai.
Tantō
A is a traditionally made Japanese knife that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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Thomas Lockley
Thomas Lockley (born 1978) is an English educator residing in Japan.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
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Toyotomi Hidetsugu
was a during the Sengoku period of Japan.
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
, otherwise known as and, was a Japanese samurai and daimyō (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan. Yasuke and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are Oda retainers and samurai.
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Tuttle Publishing
Tuttle Publishing, originally the Charles E. Tuttle Company, is a book publishing company that includes Tuttle, Periplus Editions, and Journey Editions.
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Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Michigan Press
The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Whalerock Industries
Whalerock Industries Holding Company, LLC, commonly referred to as Whalerock Industries, is an American media and technology company.
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Yahoo! Japan
is a Japanese web portal.
Yasuke (TV series)
Yasuke is a Japanese-American original net animation (ONA) series loosely based on the historical figure of the same name, an African warrior who served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period of samurai conflict in 16th century Japan.
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See also
16th-century African people
- Ellen More
- Funji of Ndongo
- Idia
- Jacques Francis
- Jemba of Buganda
- John Blanke
- Mahmud Kati
- Mohammed Bagayogo
- Reasonable Blackman
- Yasuke
- Yeshaq (Bahr Negus)
Foreign samurai in Japan
- Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn
- List of foreign-born samurai in Japan
- Rinoie Motohiro
- Wakita Naokata
- William Adams (samurai)
- Yagyū Shume
- Yasuke
Oda retainers
- Akechi Mitsuhide
- Gamō Ujisato
- Hachiya Yoritaka
- Hayashi Hidesada
- Hori Hidemasa
- Hosokawa Fujitaka
- Ikeda Tsuneoki
- Kawajiri Hidetaka
- Kuki Yoshitaka
- Maeda Toshiie
- Maeda Toshinaga
- Mizoguchi Hidekatsu
- Mori Ranmaru
- Mori Yoshinari
- Murai Sadakatsu
- Mōri Yoshikatsu
- Nakagawa Hidemasa
- Niwa Nagahide
- Niwa Nagashige
- Saji Kazunari
- Sakuma Nobumori
- Sassa Narimasa
- Shibata Katsuie
- Takigawa Kazumasu
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Tsutsui Sadatsugu
- Yasuke
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
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