One would imagine how many people from Japan wished they had the strength and body structure of Yasuke.
Who is this famous Yasuke that has a place in the history of Japan?

Yasuke was an enslaved servant of Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. He was a Muslim Mozambique, and among those captured during the 16th-century transatlantic slave trade in his early 20s.

Although many accounts countered this claim, according to the 2013 program, Investigation by the light, by Discovery of the World’s Mysteries, points out that Yasuke could be a Makua man named Yasuke. He was equally suggested to have been a Yao clan member who came in contact with the Portuguese merchants. Backing it up with the Japanese suffix for a male name Suke.

A theory suggests that he was from the Habshi tribe of Ethiopia as it was discovered that some parts of Ethiopia still bear the name Yasufe.

An account states that he might be from the tribe of Dinka in South Sudan. Dinka’s people are widely seen as the tallest and the darkest people in Africa known by having a decorative tattoo on their faces, although no account records of Yasuke having patterns on his face.

Yasuke, who was the servant of Alessan...



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