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Rated by Participant: 9AB1935B165D93136E6896F4B8002FBBB2D28DCE2B04FA8735C5CDA5B41CE615
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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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