Yasuke

Black people believe this gollywog was a noble samurai.

Yasuke (Moonspeak: 弥助 or 弥介, pronounced: ya-sucky) was an African slave who was brought to glorious Nippon during the mid-1500s where he served the great Oda Nobunaga for about 15 months during the 1580s. Despite what the pedophiles over on Wikipedia will likely try to tell you, there is absolutely no evidence that Yasuke was ever a samurai or even anything more than a common slave.

The fictional narrative of Yasuke as an "African Samurai" was created in the mid-2010s by a British weeaboo named Thomas Lockley who decided to vandalize Wikipedia to help sell his book about Yasuke. Popular media focusing on this fictional version of Yasuke as a samurai includes the 2021 netflix anime Yasuke and the upcoming 2024 Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Vandalizing Wikipedia for Fun and Profit

Thomas Cockley

Thomas Lockley (Wapanese: ロックリー・トーマス), born in 1978, is a homosexual British fanfiction author who moved to Japan in the early 2000s and began integrating with the locals by acting like he was Japanese and buying thousands of pounds of anime figures to store in his lonely, cum-stained apartment in Tottori.

In 2016, Lockley released his thesis entitled The Story of Yasuke: Nobunaga's African Retainer.

	“	Yasuke first arrived in Japan in the service of Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. He was summoned to Nobunaga after Nobunaga wished to see a black man.	„
	—Nobunaga wanted to see a Nobunigga.

In 2019 Lockley released the book African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

“	When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traversed much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child in Northeast Africa, he served as a bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, traveling to India and China, and eventually arriving in Japan, where everything would change. Most Japanese people had never seen an African man before. Some believed he was a god. Others saw him as the black-skinned Buddha. Among those drawn to him was Lord Nobunaga, head of the most powerful clan in Japan, who made Yasuke a samurai in his court. Soon, Yasuke was learning the traditions of martial arts and ascending the upper echelons of Japanese society, where he would live on to become a legend for the centuries to come.	„
—Amazon's synopsis for Thomas' Yasuke fanfic

See Also

• WE WUZ KINGZ AN SHEIT
• Bix Nood
• Afrocentrism

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