Look at this cool armor I found!

[Lavian]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3444731349

It's a nice callback to Team Ninja, the famed Japanese developer's, previous games.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3250576370

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Valant:

Originally posted by IchigoMait:

The person was real, an african slave sold to Oda Nobunaga at some point, he was a comedic joke for them and maybe for a little while the first black samurai without a surname (probably died or was demoted and nobody cared to give any more historic records about him as he didn't exist anymore).

Remember the AC Shadows problem using the Yasuke African samurai as a piece of history fact.

There is one japanese person who confirms it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1c2sn02/yasuke_and_how_thomas_lockleys_novel_is_revising/

But the problematic part is that Thomas Lockley made up too much stuff about that person.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1c2sn02/yasuke_and_how_thomas_lockleys_novel_is_revising/

So we have to shift(ingore) through data anything after the year when Lockley started publishing his books and editing wikipedia info about Yasuke or Oda Nobunaga info.

It's impossible for him to become a samurai with the amount of time he was in the country for.

If he was a samurai, he would have been executed as an honourable death.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/d194e53c49a9b820a56755a998831cd6ec13f430

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1css0ye/was_yasuke_a_samurai/

But sure.

[Valant]

Originally posted by Lavian:

Originally posted by Valant:

It's impossible for him to become a samurai with the amount of time he was in the country for.

If he was a samurai, he would have been executed as an honourable death.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/d194e53c49a9b820a56755a998831cd6ec13f430

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1css0ye/was_yasuke_a_samurai/

But sure.

"Thomas Lockley"

Nope.

https://thatparkplace.com/japanese-government-exposes-another-lie-of-assassins-creed-shadows-collaborater-thomas-lockley/

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Valant:

Originally posted by Lavian:

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/d194e53c49a9b820a56755a998831cd6ec13f430

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1css0ye/was_yasuke_a_samurai/

But sure.

"Thomas Lockley"

Nope.

https://thatparkplace.com/japanese-government-exposes-another-lie-of-assassins-creed-shadows-collaborater-thomas-lockley/

Reread the post.

It's literally just using his translation of one line from Shinchōkōki, aka "The Chronicle of Nobunaga", a chronicle compiled by Ōta Gyūichi, one of Nobunaga's vassals.

And the Japanese text is right there, included.