Good accessible reading for anyone, not just history buffs
5 stars
The author did an excellent job painting pictures with words. Not only of Yasuke and his life, but also of the world of Portuguese Jesuit priests who hired him and brought him to Japan, of the Japanese leaders and common people who encountered him. It also gives a good account of the forgetting and subsequent rediscovery of Yasuke's existence. I often found myself on the edge of my seat, waiting with bated breath to find out the outcome of events that happened 450 years ago.
The author did an excellent job painting pictures with words. Not only of Yasuke and his life, but also of the world of Portuguese Jesuit priests who hired him and brought him to Japan, of the Japanese leaders and common people who encountered him. It also gives a good account of the forgetting and subsequent rediscovery of Yasuke's existence. I often found myself on the edge of my seat, waiting with bated breath to find out the outcome of events that happened 450 years ago.