There are three different styles, representing three different samurai warlords who had ambitions of ruling the country during the Sengoku era: gold for Tokugawa Ieyasu, silver for Oda Nobunaga, and ...

When feudal Japan’s most powerful warlord Nobunaga Oda met Yasuke, a black slave-turned-retainer, in 1581, he believed the man was a god. Oda had never seen an African before. And like the ...

This 17th-century folding screen allegedly depicts Yasuke, the African warrior who served under the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga. As one of the few foreigners to rise in samurai ranks, Yasuke’s ...

Known as Yasuke, the man was a warrior who reached the rank of samurai under the rule of Oda Nobunaga - a powerful 16th Century Japanese feudal lord who was the first of the three unifiers of Japan.

Nobunaga Oda (Mature), Mitsuhide Akechi (Mature), Hanzo Hattori, Sandayu Momochi, Magoichi Saika, and Yasuke will be playable characters in Samurai Warriors 5, publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Om… ...

Shortly after Nobunaga’s death, Yasuke joined Oda Nobutada, the son of Nobunaga, who was nearby. “At that point, [Yasuke] fights again, a second battle of the morning,” Lockley said.

As much as popular samurai movies and TV dramas strive to get their facts straight, portrayals of a coup against feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-82) by one of his subordinates at Honnoji temple ...

When feudal Japan’s most powerful warlord Nobunaga Oda met Yasuke, a black slave-turned-retainer, in 1581, he believed the man was a god. Oda had never seen an African before. And like the ...