 Meet Yasuke, who was not only the first black samurai, but the world's first non-Japanese samurai. The history only accounts for his life from 1579 to 1582, but what of three years those were. Believed to have been a slave, he eventually became a valet to Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valliano on a mission to spread Christianity in Japan. They arrived in Kyoto and they met Lord Nobunaga, and it was believed that Lord Nobunaga ordered Yasuke to scrub the ink off his skin, having never before seen dark skin. The two men quickly became friends, and Yasuke was quickly employed as a samurai. They traveled together on the mission to unify Japan, however in 1582 they were ambushed by their own general and defeated. In an act to preserve his pride, the Lord committed Tsupuku, and it is believed that Yasuke took his head to prevent the enemy from displaying the trophy. Now Yasuke's fate afterward is unknown, did he survive, keep fighting, and return to mission work? Despite what historians think, Netflix tells us that he went on to fight robots of magic, which is probably historically accurate.