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Explanation: When the African man Yasuke (birth name uncertain) was brought to the court of the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga by Portuguese missionaries, none of the Japanese nobility there had ever seen an African man before. So Nobunaga ordered Yasuke to strip, and then had him scrubbed clean, thinking that would wash the paint off and show the Portuguese up for trying to play him for a fool!
When said vigorous scrubbing revealed that it was not paint and that Black people do, in fact, exist, Nobunaga took on Yasuke as a personal retainer. Nobunaga appeared to place some amount of trust in Yasuke, bestowing him with a sword and servants, discussing matters with him, eating meals with him (a rare honor from a high-ranking lord like Nobunaga), and being accompanied by him both at home and on campaign.
Yasuke was present as one of Nobunaga’s defenders at the ambush which took Nobunaga’s life; after Nobunaga’s assassination in that incident, Yasuke escaped the ambush and joined Nobunaga’s son, who was also subsequently defeated by those same forces. Yasuke’s life was spared after being captured at this second battle, by some accounts according to the xenophobia of the traitorous lord who orchestrated the ambush and attempted coup, preferring to send him away with the Portuguese rather than execute him as a soldier.
After this, Yasuke fades from the historical record, unfortunately.
I feel like Assassin’s Creed: Shadows took a bit too many liberties with Yasuke, but then again it’s fiction and Ubisoft, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.
Its also assasins creed. Its like historical action figures, as long as things are generally in the right places at the end of the game it’s good enough.
Yeah, the alt-right suspiciously doesn’t have any problem with the templars in the game.
I haven’t played the latest AC so I can’t comment on Yasuke there specifically, but it feels like only the first Assassin’s Creed truly loved history. Ever since it’s only been loosely connected with the historical figures it portrays.
I remember when AC was groundbreaking when it accurately recreated large parts of a historical city. They certainly have departed from that.
AC1: “All of these minor historical figures actually died in this time period, many of them under mysterious (albeit not blade-wielding-assassin-in-a-crowd) circumstances, and the big twist of ancient artifacts being Real Shit isn’t until the very end”
AC afterwards: “You have a fistfight with the Pope over a magic apple”
I enjoyed many of the later games, but not in the same way. The first one was the only one that really felt like social stealth mattered and was immersive, even if it was clunky at times.
Also, they gave Richard Couer de Lion a French accent. Mad props for that accuracy - implying him as French-speaking, I mean, not that he spoke modern English with a French accent.
I mean, the depiction of norse in AC Valhalla is pure fantasy. Stave churches roughly fifty years before the first attempts of christianisation in Norway are a minor mistake compared to whatever the “Vikings” are wearing (I really hate such depictions of norse people, it’s just dumb), the oversized axes, the hair, beard and makeup styles… Every cliché destilled into a game.
But sure, a black samurai, that’s where people get railed up about historicity.
I really don’t understand it.
There’s plenty to complain about the Yasuke sections of Shadows but sure capital G Gamers biggest problem was black man bad because they’re absolute man children.
Even fro their criminal fantasies, gamurrs demand white protagonists. Remember when the protagonist of GTA San Andreas was revealed to be a black man?
I had to help defend Wikipedia’s Yasuke article for a while from asshat man children who could not stand to see the article say he was declared a samurai, because that’s what the reliable sources say. They kept throwing mounds and mounds of original research out there to the contrary, but not one speck of the first evidence given to the contrary was reliable. Whereas at least one reliable source does expressly state he was a samurai.
I’m not saying there’s a lot of historical record about this man at all— there isn’t. But what we have says he was a black samurai. Racists gonna racist.