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[-] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

There's a lot of nuance and hair-splitting involved; it's unlikely Yasuke would have been granted the title of samurai, but he was referred to as kosho. He was given a short sword, but not a long sword to pair with it. Samurai were required by law to wear the paired swords, known as daisho, and anyone else was forbidden.

Almost all samurai were indeed retainers, with the exception of ronin. But bushi who were not samurai could still be retainers. It's all kind of a huge classist mess. Thanks feudalism!

If you throw out the hierarchical nonsense, Yasuke fit the role of what most people today would think of as a samurai. It's kind of weird for anyone to argue against that in the fast and loose setting of an Assassin's Creed game. Ubisoft aren't known for churning out painstakingly accurate historical reference works. It's a game with a character roughly based on a distinct historical figure.

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