EAN: 9781804366257

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In 1579 a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu Japan loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his village as a boy sold to mercenaries and forced to fight in Indian wars that meant nothing to him he is a young but experienced soldier. Serving as the protector for a high-ranking Italian priest the young man joins an expedition pushing inland towards the capital city of Kyoto. There they meet Oda Nobunaga the most powerful warlord in Japan who is preparing a campaign to unify the country after more than a hundred years of civil war. Under the tutelage of Nobunaga the young African soldier becomes the great warrior Yasuke Japans first foreign samurai and the only one ever of African descent. His preoccupation is not a question of power as it is for Nobunaga but one of freedom. A timeless epic story a magnificent reconstruction and moving study of a lost historical figure and a truly enthralling narrative thrilling in its dramatization of the making of modern Japan from which rises the most unlikely of heroes.

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