Category:Yasuke

**Yasuke**
	African retainer in 16th century Japan
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Name in native language	弥助;
Date of birth	1530s; Mozambique (presumably)
Date of death	unknown value; Kyoto
Country of citizenship	Japan;
Occupation	samurai;
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English: Yasuke (弥助, 1540-Unknown) was a retainer of African origin who served under the Sengoku Period Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga. In 1579 Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano.

日本語: 弥助（やすけ、生没年不詳）は、戦国時代の日本に渡来した黒人で、宣教師所有の奴隷として、戦国大名・織田信長への献上品とされたが、信長に気に入られ、その家臣に召し抱えられた。