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Rated by Participant: 53C132A50E4B2BEF90152A37C64C6CC05A218E6D72373BA005A2217416758FAB
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Yasuke was a real person. Yasuke was a man of African origin who served as a samurai to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-yasuke-japans-first-black-samurai-180981416/
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