Credit to the sculptor, Nicola Roos, who made this in 2017. More images of this can be found here.
Yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man of African origin who served as a kashin (家臣, retainer) under the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga.[5]
In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of the Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India. Yasuke was one of the several Africans to have come with the Portuguese to Japan during the Nanban trade and is thought by some to have been the first African that Nobunaga had ever seen.[6][7] He was also present during the Honnō-ji Incident, the forced suicide of Nobunaga at the hands of his general Akechi Mitsuhide on 21 June 1582.
Spartan2470 on November 23rd, 2021 at 14:26 UTC »
Credit to the sculptor, Nicola Roos, who made this in 2017. More images of this can be found here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
hearse223 on November 23rd, 2021 at 14:31 UTC »
A direct descendant of Yasuke
akugyaku on November 23rd, 2021 at 14:56 UTC »
I bet he was a sight to behold in feudal japan. edit: if he existed